From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2006-05-16T10:45:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ticked Off

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On 15-May-06, at 8:14 PM, Elliot Temple wrote:

>>> I realise this may be a tangential issue, but if someone can't  
>>> afford a book and is not going to buy it either way, whom has he  
>>> harmed by downloading it?
>>
>> That's like saying that you're stuck with someone, and you're not  
>> going to share your food either way, so what harm is there in  
>> killing the person now instead of letting him starve to death.  
>> That's just a silly way of thinking.
>
> The harm there is that he would die sooner than he would if he were  
> left un-murdered. He loses that amount of his life. But the thing  
> is, who is harmed in the hypothetical case I described?

The publisher, and as a result, the author; by not getting the money  
for the book.

> -- Elliot Temple

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Jeremy Tregunna
jtregunna@blurgle.ca




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