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[Stilgherrian]

On 25/6/07 4:24 PM, "Craig Sanders" <cas at taz.net.au> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:51:41PM +1000, Stilgherrian wrote:
>> If you make a copy of someone's copyrighted material without paying, you're
>> depriving them of whatever profit they would have made had you acquired that
>> copy according to the license they want you to follow.
> 
> equally, if you don't ever buy their copyrighted work (whether you
> copy/use it or not), you are depriving them of the income they would
> have had if you had bought it.
> 
> therefore, failure to consume is theft and should be punished by lengthy
> gaol sentences. 
> 
> furthermore, there should be no distinction by the courts between wilful
> failure to consume and incidental or ignorant failure.

Nice try. But that's complete sophistry. Or trolling.

Let's be concrete. "You can have a copy of my book to read if you pay me
$29". You say, "No, I'll just copy it and read it and not give you $29".
Whatever you want to call it, it's not nice behaviour.

You can jump up and down and say the book "should" be free for everyone to
read -- but that wasn't the offer being made.

Stil


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