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Old 03-09-2010, 03:50 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by Ilkyway View Post
I can totally follow Overs argumentation, but I can not find one argument in your statement. What are you saying? It is ethical to download files when you KNOW the source is not legal? It is ethical to let this person who does this pirat-site think, that he is doing a good job? It is ethical to violate the rights of authors just because he has a scanner and knows how to do it?
It would be ethical, if he would try to find a way to make cultural goods available to everybody for a reasonable price. It would be ethical if he wrote great books himselve and gave them away for free. But he is trying to make money with the work of other people.
And while I can understand Marcy, I can't understand how other people here are trying to make it sound like the right thing to do.
I don't think anybody has said that what the uploader is doing is ethical.

What some of us are saying is that whether or not the uploader is ethical and whether or not the downloader is ethical are separate issues. Others don't believe there can be a separation, that's the discussion.

Discussions about ethics are mostly pointless anyway. Everybody has their own opinion, and most are unlikely to change it. There is no correct/incorrect answer.
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