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I mean, except if they are clearly copying works they don't have copyright to, they are violating the law and effectively taking some amount of money out of the pocket of authors and rights holders. You can try and demand people use more "neutral" language to disucss copyright violations, but good luck.

I hope you never know the misfortune of having assets devalued by people that feel they don't need to operate within the boundaries of the rules.

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That assumes the laws are fairly made and just, and therefore people who don't conform to them are doing something harmful.

If a company successfully lobbied and bribed the legislature to pass a law gving the company a monopoly on book publishing and sales, and someone bought books elsewhere, would that someone be doing something wrong? Are they harming that poor victim of a company?

Life isn't as simple as a hypothetical, of course, but it's also not as simple as assuming everything is just and fair.

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