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But it's not a question of ethics

EXACTLY what someone with an ethical dilemma says.

Situational logic if there ever was any.




I'm actually more suspicious of people who turn what is basically an engineering question ("How do we design a system that maximizes total utility?") into a moral question.


It can only be described as an ethical dilemma if the underlying assumptions are sound. I don't believe that the way we talk about information actually represents what information is and that is the root of the problem. Pirating music or not is not the question to ask until we work out what it is which is getting pirated.




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