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Originally Posted by Fat Abe
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Wasn't this thread started by an evangelist? What would God think of piracy? Would his angels deny you entry into heaven, if you violated copyright law? Shall we ask the lord for an Eleventh commandment, say, in honor of Sonny Bono? Thou shalt not read a pirated book or watch a bootleg movie, for it is a far greater sin than adultery, false worship, or avarice. Amen.
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Actually, the Catholic Tradition states that one of the sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance is defrauding laborers of their wages.
To download copyrighted material is definitely to use someone's work without paying him/her.
So, there's no doubt about it.
For a Catholic illicit download should be a sin comparable to homicide and homosexuality.
For the record, no one of the catholic I know (most of them are downloaders) agrees about it.
I didn't research it deeply, but I'm pretty sure there is not an official position of the Pope on this subject.