[Ti] [OT} All this 'anti-piracy' stuff

[Sam Hotchkiss]

On Wed, 7 May 2003 4:57PM -0700, Sherman Gregory wrote:
> At 3:27 PM -0600 5/7/03, Sam Hotchkiss wrote:
>> by accepting stolen property you are not, yourself, removing that 
>> property from its rightful owner-- that said, there is a moral 
>> obligation to make a reasonable attempt to return that property, but, 
>> at least in my mind, there is no true moral faux pas when it comes to 
>> ACCEPTING that property.
>
> I think the important point about purchasing stolen property is that 
> you are enabling and supporting the theft industry.  If the market 
> would only bare a price of zero dollars for stolen property, the thief 
> would go out of business just like the music industry.

I agree that you should not pay for stolen property, but we were talking 
about receiving it as a gift
--
Sam Hotchkiss
s at swh.cn
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