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		jkyle on May 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tmux 2.0 released > This argument is a little too close to justifying piracy for my liking. "I wasn't going to buy it anyway, so it's fine" Do you also think not buying a Toyota is a little too close to car theft?

GrantSolar on May 7, 2015 [–]

Consuming content or a product whilst deliberately evading the means put in place to compensate a creator for the work done is akin to piracy. I don't see how there's any question that that isn't at least a morally grey area

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