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Originally posted by yotta
Podmore: pirating is NOT stealing, stealing involves depriving someone of what you have stolen. If you steal a rolls royce, they have one less they can sell. If you pirate software, you are simply using a copy of it without paying. If you are unable to afford it, and could not pirate it, and would otherwise do without, the developers would not have gotten your money anyway.
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That is <i>such</i> a rationalization. Any time you take something that doesn't belong to you, it's stealing. The fact of the matter is that a LOT of people who steal software would find a way to pay for it if they had to. ANd you know what? If everyone who used it paid for it, it would be cheaper for all of us. Piracy drives prices up, and there's a lot of evidence to that fact.
People who create things have to make an investment to do so. It really sucks to use their creation without paying them for it. I don't see how you can justify it.