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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dana_Jorgensen" data-source="post: 1549223" data-attributes="member: 12962">People like you make me laugh and make me sick at the same time. Whether or not the original copy is still in possession of the creator is immaterial. If you obtain a copy under any condition without paying for it, it is stolen merchandise. The law does not make any exceptions to this on the basis of anything being a copy. Under counterfeiting laws, you're still accountable for the lost revenues the manufacturer did not earn on your illegally produced duplicate.Nor does the law account for lost sales vs. lost revenues. If anything, the claim of "I never would have bought it anyway" does nothing but pile up more evidence of an outright intent to steal to begin with."I never would have bought it in the first place" has never been used as a successful defense against copyright infringement or counterfeiting or possession of stolen property.</blockquote>