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Originally Posted by meraxes
No, the distinction is quite clear. The author will have lost money from piracy only if you can prove that the pirated copy would have been bought legally were it not available for free. Which of course it wouldn't have in the vast majority of cases. Your average pirate downloads dozens of music albums only to listen to some tracks once or twice and then forget about them completely. Most of these pirated tracks will not be played even once by the downloader. You can't seriously suggest these people would have actually paid hundreds or thousands of pounds for all these tracks (which they would then never even listen to) if they couldn't get them for free off the torrents.
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Wrong. It doesn't matter what you call it or what the conditions are. If you take something that is not yours to take you are a thief. Nothing else matters. People try to justify their behavior by saying no one is hurt, but it is simply not true, society is being destroyed by it.