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thenewgreen · 3753 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can we cogently refute "stealing is stealing"?
If he had a stack of CDs on a table, selling them on the street and someone stole 70% of them and set up a table 20 feet away, handing them out for free. Would we bother with the question of whether those that took the free cd would have purchased it or would we condemn the practice? I think the question is one of physicality. For some reason, something has to be able to be held in your hand or it doesn't count. It doesn't matter that it's the same group of songs, the same effort put forth to produce it. Somehow the digital version is okay to steal, in fact we are somehow debating whether it is even theft. It's irrational.