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Copying a CD isn't stealing anyone's time, resources, creativity, or ingenuity. The author has all of those things in the same amounts whether I copy his CD or not.


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It is if you sell "bootleg" that CD if you are refering to copying for personal use then sure your right.

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What difference does it make if it's for personal use or not? Whether I give the copy to Joe or throw it in the trash makes no difference. Britney is not deprived of time in one case, and not in the other.

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Note what i said specificly about the ice cream problem.

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If i come and take your "ice cream cone" and then sell it as my own thats theft right?



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Ah, I see. Yes, that's theft (because the cone is scarce). It makes no difference if you sell it or not. So, in your example above, copying for personal use must be as bad as doing so for "commercial gain" or whatever you want to call it.