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Originally Posted by Rathji
Then don't expect to listen to music from the Zimbabwe national choir.
Your only defense is that I only want one song from this super obscure band but not the whole CD so you are forced to download it illegally rather than pay 20 bucks to get it shipped to you?
Just because you don't want to pay an inflated price for an object it doesn't mean you can steal it. If I went into Canadian tire and wanted to buy a single butt-end connector for 14 gauge wiring but they only sold them in packages of 10, would I be justified in ripping open the package and putting it in my pocket? No, I would buy all 10 and have them for later.
Or are you really just trying to justify stealing them because it would be a little more inconvenient to have to find a seller on ebay and wait a week for it to ship to you?
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Not even close to the same thing. If you went to Canadian Tire, saw that they sold them in packages of ten and then went home and made your own based on their patented design then it would be the same.
Again, it is not stealing.
Taking a book from the library is stealing.
Copying a book in the library, copyright violation.