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		bcook on Feb 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience I did, but with so few comments I thought I would pose a question directly related to piracy, rather than the precise topic in the article.

j-pb on Feb 25, 2016 [–]

Torrenting movie is piracy, this is making something accessible to the public that has been paid for by said public to begin with.

Publishers are the ones doing the stealing (yes stealing not piracy, because piracy at least leaves the original accessible).

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