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Originally Posted by kazbates
I've been thinking about this quite a bit since I first saw the statement and I have a question, "Why do people who pirate books feel that it is within your "right" to do so?" Why do you believe that you are so deserving of something that you take it without giving compensation to the true owners?
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Your mistake is believing that there exist a true owner. Intellectual property does not work the same way as physical property. Copyright is a government enforced monopol for distribution and nothing natural. The goal is to make more things available in the public domain.
By talking about true owner and theft you leading the thoughts in the wrong direction. Which is of course why lobby organisations use these terms in the way they do for their own propaganda goals.