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Originally Posted by DerekSTheRed Are you saying you would only illegally download from a "big" company but not from a little guy that barely scrapes by? Are you going to audit each company's financial records to make sure your illegal download isn't hurting their bottom line? IMO illegal downloading is a habit and once you start doing it, you will rationalize every illegal download in a slippery slope fashion until you stop rationalizing it and just do it without thinking of the consequences. I know, I used to just that.
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No, I'm saying that I wouldn't illegally download something, decide NOT to purchase the product, but then continue to use the illegal copy anyway.
It doesn't have anything to do with a big company or small company. As a moral and responsible person, I will financially support the hobbies that I enjoy. But the act of ALSO looking at a copy of said material is not itself immoral.
Distributing material beyond fair use may be immoral. Using material without financially supporting it's creation/distribution may be immoral. But simply accessing that material, without payment, is not immoral by any means... for if it were, then we would live in a dangerous world.
My argument is based on a moral system of patronage, rather than an absolute system of pay-for-knowledge.
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