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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Piracy is plain old stealing no matter how you try to justify it.
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I've often argued that unauthorized downloading is not stealing - it's not even piracy. I've given up. It is stealing - it's stealing like not paying your fare on the bus is stealing: it's difficult to see where the loss is. If it helps anyone to call it stealing, go ahead - will it make any difference? Not a jot - people who upload and download unauthorized copies of books on the whole don't give a stuff what people on "law abiding" forums like this one think of their activities, and the more "the man" persecutes them the more determined they are to find ways of carrying on.