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Originally Posted by Moejoe
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).
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Clearly that is your belief, but just as clearly it is depriving the person that created the words/file/book/story of making a living at it. That is stealing, that is unethical, that is morally corrupt -- unless, as I've said, that person has given up their right to their creation.
If I take the air from around you that would be legal, right, you don't own it, it wouldn't be stealing cause it doesn't belong to you right? Must be ethical and moral too.
