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Originally Posted by pietvo
No, I'm not confusing morals and laws. But what other moral issues are there regarding copyright? There used to be a time when there were no copyrights. You could just copy a book and it was considered right to do so. Copyright is something that is defined by law, not by morals. So I do make that distinction certainly. On the other hand I also feel morally obliged to conform to the law. Well, in fact, I go a bit further - I will not download illegal copies of ebooks although the law in my country allows it.
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It is a little confusing - I think kennyc (sp?) believes that there are absolute moral property rights to ideas, but I could be misrepresenting his position.
Kennyc, can you restate your position? Do you still think that copying is theft and that it is a moral absolute (despite the fact that it was only recently in human history that this concept has come to exist)? I don't want to over-state your position.