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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
I do not want to appear that I am all for "information wants to be free" slogan, but calling tens of millions of people who download music, books, movies, share them and so on... thieves and sitting on the moral high horse leads nowhere.
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I'm sorry, but they
are thieves. I don't want to condemn anyone, but it's the truth.
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I want authors and publishers to be compensated fairly so they can keep writing, but we have to recognize that the current copyright system and the internet and more generally computers are not in sync to say the least.
Even laws are ultimately an expression of general will at least in an open society, so if tens of millions of people break those laws something has to be done.
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What needs to be done is to educate people that taking someone else's intellectual property without paying for it is
not an "OK" thing to do. As I said in an earlier message, there is a widespread perception at present that "it doesn't really matter because nobody's losing anything". People need to be educated that it
does matter and they are taking away the livelyhoods of hard-working people.