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Originally Posted by Kevin2960
So I have tickets or soccers World Cup,thier sent electronically,so i make a few backups, which i use for several of the games, I give some to mates, I sell a few, then upload and share them on here, But I don't FEEL its wrong, so it's not theft right ?
No one minds, so its OK!
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This isn't about what I feel is wrong. What you describe is gaining entrance to an event through some kind of fraud. Unauthorised copying of an ebook is (at least sometimes) copyright infringement. You could not be prosecuted for theft.
Let's be clear - it's not legally theft.
It might strike you as being the same as theft, so you call it that - but I don't think that it is the same, because it doesn't take anything away in the way that theft does.
I also never said that I didn't feel unauthorised copying was wrong. As it happens, I think that it depends on the circumstances. If I have bought the book new, and then I copy an electronic version of a friend to read it, I don't feel that is morally wrong. If a book is available for purchase, and I've not already purchased it, and I copy it - I think that is wrong.
The point of this poll was to find out what people thought - not to seek the "right answer".