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Originally Posted by LisaPT
I would never walk into a bookstore and start shoving books into a tote bag and walk out. The fact that it is electronic bits and I can do it from inside my house, doesn't make it any less stealing.
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Yes it does! This is being discussed over on the "Will you pay $15 thread", where the difference has been expressed more clearly than I could.
If you went over to someone's house and saw that, as well as a lot of albums, they had some on cassette [I am showing my age!], would you think the same of that person as you would of someone who had stolen physical copies of those albums?
When I was a student (20 years ago), I would have been shocked to find someone who DIDN'T have any copies of albums on cassette, and equally shocked if someone was stealing physical copies.
Whether or not you think that making a copy illegally is right or wrong, it's definitely different to stealing a physical copy.