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Originally Posted by dsvick
If you do not get the right to make a copy through legal means then copying it is wrong. Case closed, no discussion, it is cut and dried - if it is not legal to do something and you do it then it is wrong.
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Sorry, case isn't closed. What you are describing is an 'unlawful' act, whether it is morally wrong or right is up for debate. And lets not get into what is right or wrong either, there's plenty of laws that are wrong, plenty. Is it wrong for a man and a man or a woman and a woman to be married? Or is it merely unlawful? Is it wrong or merely unlawful to smoke marijuana?
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Ghosthawk, regardless of whether you think it is fair, or it is your right, or because you can't afford it, or for whatever reason you use to justify your action it is still wrong. Using your justification we can all do whatever we want to simply because we can think of a, to us, logical reason. I did not make enough money last year to afford a 60 inch flat screen tv, but I really want one so I'm just going to take one. How is that even remotely "not wrong"?
Yes, books are not flat panel televisions, nor are they famous paintings but they are still a good that someone spent time and effort in the creation of and deserves compensation for the use of.
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No, they don't 'deserve' anything. They can try for monetary compensation by the selling of their goods or services, but they do not 'deserve' anything. If even a fraction of a percentile of all you 'piracy is wrong, its hurting the artists' Johnnies were actually to point your ire towards the real criminals, this debate would have been over a long time ago. But, no, you go on paying the publishers over and over again knowing full well that the author only gets cents on the dollar. You pay into a system that routinely screws authors over, that puts authors at the bottom of the pile. Most of them are making less than minimum wage, but you'd rather shout and ball at somebody downloading a book or two. Hypocrites the lot of you.