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Originally Posted by Happ
Let me add my two cents to this discussion. Piracy defenders do a poor job of defending what they should be defending, and that is one reason why there is scarcely any good sense in these debates (I do not mean this particular forum). When those who are partially right get the arguments wrong those who are partially wrong never get the chance to correct what is wrong about their views.
First, the issue is purely economical.
Second, there is no second issue.
What is at stake is how are we going to pay creative people. Yes, I mean those who write books and songs and play the piano —authors. This is the issue. Pirates want the money just for themselves, either because they do not want to pay authors and want that money to buy hardware or because they want donations to keep their servers going — they are evil. Distributers and publishers want some money for themselves but also want to pay authors because they know that is where their business is coming from. So they are less evil.
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This is just propaganda and wrong.