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Originally Posted by Kevin2960
Theft is theft, dress it up anyway you like
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Of course theft is theft, and murder is murder, and making an illegal copy is making an illegal copy.
This emotive language is not appropriate. If I consider my posts as my children, and anyone who disagrees with me as molesting my posts, should I refer to their actions as child molesting? Might that upset them? It would be inappropriate because what people mean by child molesting is different to what they are doing. And what people mean by theft is different to, for example, downloading a copy of a book you own on paper in contravention of copyright laws (if that even does contravene them, IANAL).
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It upsets me that people who moan at publishers cheating them ?, are then so happy to take from an author, without paying even a token amount ???
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Often, people would love to pay - especially a "token amount"
- but there may be no official published version, or geo restrictions. Or maybe they feel that, having bought the paper book, they have already paid the author.