Thread: The $15 Boycott: Will you be participating?
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Old 02-05-2010, 03:27 PM   #172
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Originally Posted by cmdahler View Post
Semantics. If you get caught, you can get prosecuted period, because you are engaged in illegal activity. That is the salient fact. Call it what you will, there is no fundamental, philosophical difference between walking into B&N and shoplifting out a book and downloading a torrent. Arguing anything else is just rationalizing an attempt to circumvent the rules of society for your own convenience (i.e., you [in general, not you in particular] are a cheap bastard and just want a free book).
The courts (in most countries) respectfully disagree.
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