Suppose I take a copy of 'Great Expectations' off a shelf, stuff it in my bag and hook it out of the bookshop. Is that stealing or piracy? 'Great Expectations' still exists - millions of copies, it's always in print, it's been filmed, and so on. I'm not really hurting anyone, am I? After all, my taking the book doesn't prevent anyone else from reading it. Charles Dickens is dead, so he's not losing any money. The publishers, I'm sure, expect a certain amount of loss and plan for it in their annual budgets. The bookshop owner is insured.
So then, taking a hardbacked novel out of a bookshop without paying doesn't qualify as theft, correct?
Boru
So then, taking a hardbacked novel out of a bookshop without paying doesn't qualify as theft, correct?
Boru
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