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Anonymous
>>240787 >>240862 Idealistic mentality. Say a man has a book. He does not want you to read it. It's his book, and what's in it is his possession.
You take the book without asking, you read the book. Because "it belongs to you as well", and it's not stealing, since information belongs to everybody, right?
The man chops your thieving hands off, preventing you from ever stealing again. Knowledge belongs to the world, but not when it's against the wishes of the owner. possession is 9/10ths of the law, and if you violate a persons property in a manner unbecoming, you have nobody to cry to when you feel the consequences of your free-for-all lifestyle. You have no ethical or moral highground to be pissed if somebody ganks you for stealing, when you steal and redistribute. Be it movies, books or music.
Not saying trading it is evil, just that your logic is flawed. Knowledge is not given freely or an entitlement, it's earned. If you earn it by stealing, you earn retribution from your deed. If you earn it from science, that's going with nature to accumulate a knowledge of what works.
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