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Originally Posted by ewan View Post
The trouble with arguing based on what 'most people' think is that an awful lot of people are completely fine with the idea of 'pirating' software, which is why it happens so much and so casually.

People like to share, to support each other, and we generally teach children that sharing what they have is the good and right thing to do. There's certainly an economic case to be made that government imposed restrictions on sharing are a necessary evil to promote useful creative work, but it's much harder to claim that preventing sharing is an abstract moral good.
I thought we also taught them to pay for what they use and that reward for effort expended is reasonable too?

the debate over release model is defiantely one that is worthy of attention but I thought the title of the thread implied that given a specific model had been chosen, was it right to by pass the given agreement.