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I could easily have answered any of the choices with the exception of the very top answer. Different situations, different choices.
Ohh and Kenny will you just accept the fact that its not the same as stealing a painting!
After all, how many of your biggest wealthiest customers have works of art that are stolen, or copied without permission of the artist in their collections?
Do you refuse to sell to them?
Would the world be a better place if only a handfull of very rich people had ever seen the Mona Lisa?
Every one of those pictures and prints of the Mona Lisa are by your definition theft.
Even though the original hangs in splendor, nothing has been taken from it. No one has lost it, but according to you its theft. Well thankfully you don't make the definitions.
If its in public domain in Canada, and I can download it directly to my computer, why NOT copy it? The issue then becomes one of "who's rules" and when that happens I say "My rules trump your rules".
Does that make me a pirate, no doubt about it.
If I could afford to buy it, at a reasonable price I probably would.
But should I be told I can't read this book because we didn't make enough money last year? It is to laugh. Seriously!
Ohhh and before you look down your nose at me. Wait till you've been disabled, unable to work for 10 years with virtually zero income. Wait till you've had to subsist on under 20k a year for 2 people, 4 cats and 2 birds. Walk a mile in my shoes before you give me that holier than thou stare.
Yes I'm a pirate, but not always by choice.
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