RE: Morality and downloading
April 17, 2015 at 5:47 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2015 at 5:48 pm by Chas.)
(April 17, 2015 at 5:44 pm)Quatermass Wrote:Theft of intellectual property is theft.(April 17, 2015 at 5:42 pm)Chas Wrote: It is property, so it has the same basis as any other theft of property.Downloading a file that has already been uploaded to a server is merely duplicating the file. There is no law against duplicating the file. Duplicating property is not theft.
You can rationalize it all you want, but if I take a photograph or write a program, you have no right to simply make a copy of my work for your use.
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