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Originally Posted by kennyc
Of course it is wrong both in a legal and ethical sense unless that person has intentionally given the rights away. Ethically anything created by a person is their property. Taking that property is stealing.
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No it is not. You're quite wrong. A digital file is just that, a file, zeros and ones. You are not depriving anybody of anything when you copy a file. You are not stealing, ethically, morally or any other way, no matter how you might 'feel'. The worst that you can be accused of is 'copyright infringement', but even then, because no money is charged or profit made, it would never be taken too seriously (anywhere but America that is).