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by vectorpush 5296 days ago
if you're saying that it's cool to just steal the work

From my post: Of course, people don't have the right to download content without paying for it.

There is no doubt that people deserve compensation for their work, but if the full value of your effort can be represented as a string of 1s and 0s, then you must accept the reality that computers, the most ubiquitous machines on the planet, are all designed with the fundamental purpose of shifting around 1s and 0s. You simply cannot fight the reality that data is cheap and easy to share without setting back progress.