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If at any point a person chooses to "share" the work of an artist with other people outside of the marketplace where the artist is selling their work, then those people are stealing. I really don't think it's that hard to discern fair use from theft. I also don't understand why so many people rush to defend stealing software just because "it's only numbers on a computer". Stolen software is not just a number on a computer. Quality software is very expensive to produce, and when people take that software without paying for I then that contributes to bad software being produced in the future, because the quality developers you want producing your software can no longer be afforded for your bullshit, because too many of you have no problem stealing from other people.


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