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wasoxygen  ·  3715 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can we cogently refute "stealing is stealing"?

    So you're saying it's the consumer's job to keep supply artificially low in order that demand can stay up?
I mean to say that copying should not be construed as having no harmful effects, simply because the producer's inventory is not touched. A lost sale is a plausible effect.

The purpose of your post, I understand, is to determine if the word "stealing" can be fairly applied to piracy. You've convinced me that "stealing" is not a good term for this behavior. But I still think it is in many cases unethical.

To determine when it is wrong we would probably do well to take it on a case-by-case basis.