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Originally Posted by edembowski
Probably much more than once.
Let me be very clear about this. If you download a copy of a book that you did not have the legal right to (such as though purchase, library check out, or through expired copyright) then you are stealing. There is no middle ground here. It is not a moral issue, it is fact.
- Ed
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Evidence please? How is it a fact that it is stealing? According to which definition of the words theft or stealing? As far as the ethical issues go, what are your credentials? Have you studied ethics? Which moral theories do you believe apply to this situation? Consequentialist ones? Deontological ones? Or maybe not downloading from the darknet is a virtue in an Aristotelian sense? Engaging in empty rhetorical flourishes about making things clear and then reasserting a conclusion is not sufficient to warrant that conclusion.
Luqman