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Nick has no innate right to have people pay for his software, just as I have no right to ask people to pay for use of my name.
Even if he did, most people who pirate his software probably would never use it anyway, so they aren't costing him any money and they're providing him with free advertising.
Don derides this rather simplistic attitude with exactly the right thought: So what if I burnt a house down?%A0 No one got hurt! Don's right - this is the slippery slope to hell. And heck, it doesn't event work on the vaguely utilitarian grounds advocated - if you don't pay the craftsman for his work, how much more work do you suppose he'll do?
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