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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Harry" data-source="post: 1561437" data-attributes="member: 5468">The ones who download material illegally are the ones who are stealing sale by sale; the ones who make the material availible for download are the ones who are commiting the greater theft.  If someone makes 20k worth of copies of your band's CD and gives them away free on the street, the market for your work, and the financial damage done by the act are identical to what it would have been if the CDs had been sold.   What you are saying here  - explicitely - is that an act is only immoral if it is the worst thing going on.  Whatever you want to do is morally upright as long as *you* judge that the person that you are doing it to is worse than you are.   Even within what I consider to be a dratically flawed argument, you have a problem.  You advocate downloading in thread about downloading, and its effect on the RPG industry, while also saying:   Thus implying that even within the worldview that you advocated above, this does not even fit your own criteria about when it is moral and defensible to steal!   All this exists (RPGnow.com, SVGames.com, even the direct to pdf stuff Malhavoc puts out; the growth of the market has been slowed and held back by the high level of piracy once any product appears in pdf form.   Let me take this opportunity to say that I, personally, am very happy for the existence of the pdf market as I have no problem with reading pdf's on my computer vs. books, and my wife is very grateful for the space saved by having the stuff electronically.</blockquote>

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