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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
Calling the tens of millions (possible hundreds of millions if you take into account Russia, China, India and other rising countries) of people that download music, books, music, software and what not, thieves is to me as ridiculous as the state governments calling all of the people that bought anything online and did not pay their state sales tax tax cheats.
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I'm afraid I honestly don't see anything ridiculous about either situation. Someone who illegally downloads copyrighted material is infringing copyright law ("thief" is the wrong word to use); someone who doesn't pay their use tax is a tax cheat. Neither should be condoned, IMHO.
What would you suggest as a solution to the problem (of illegal downloads, that is - we'll leave sorting out the tax problem for another day!)?