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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
no this is where you are marking a difference that doesn't exist. it doesn't matter that its a digital file versus a printed form, you don't have permission to take it and you don't have permission to give it away to the multitudes because it's not yours.
Would it be right if you stole the book from a store, made a thousand paper copies, returned the book and then distributed the copies on the street corner?
no of course not and that is what is being done when pirating digital copies.
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No, again, your analogy falls flat. Take a look to the left of this post, that picture there of Terry Jones in Monty Python's Flying Circus. I use that as an avatar, but I have no permission from anybody to use that image, none at all, and it would be an impossibility to gain permission to use that image as an avatar - logistically it could not, and will never be enforced. Every single time you view this page, or anybody else, they download that image and the images of anybody else who uses an avatar that they do not own copyright upon. You, yourself now have a copy of that image on your hard-drive, without any permission given, granted or sought.
Your analogy might work if you said that everybody walking past the store and looking in through the window then magically had a paper copy of the book when they returned home waiting for them, or in their purse. But again it would be nowhere near the truth of the digital. Real-world analogies don't work when you compare them to the digital world and they never will.
But lets say we go back to the physical world for a moment. If I buy a book who do I ask permission from to loan that book to a friend? Whose permission is needed for me to give that book away, or sell it on? The average amount of times a paper book is read without payment is 6 times. That's 6 times people don't pay for it. Your 'permission' based world doesn't actually exist whether you look at it digitally or physically.