>Please consider your argument when someone drives away with your car or
your
>bike or your TV or stereo!

I'm tired of this comparison of getting free things on digital things that
cost nothing to reproduce, to stealing actual hardware.

The comparison just doesn't stand up.

You could compare it to taking a fruit in a tree that isn't obviously isn't
going to get picked, instead of letting it fall to the ground, too.  But
there's a grumpy old man who won't let anyone have them, falling rotten or
not.

And then he calls you a thief.

In any regular town, it may not be strictly legal, but the policemen will
gladly jump the fence and take the fruit too, if they can.  And they
certainly won't arrest the twelve-year-old kid who took one.

Software doesn't grow on trees, you say?  Yes it does.  Look at all the free
software you can get.

The fruits, in fact, have now been successfully regulated, and are no longer
free, and you now will actually get taken to jail for taking one from the
market, hungry or not, children's prank or not.

Laws are made to protect and increase the established wealth, and you are
just one more of those become poor and more unhappy in the process, whether
you realize it or not.

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