RE: Sam’s Hangout #102 - “MEDIA AND LITERARY PIRACY”

No matter the excuse to crime, it is still a crime. Publishing someone's work is even liken to robbery. Because tell me, how I will sit down and bring imagination, embark on research, burn candles, to publish a work. Only for me to realise that I earned nothing simply because my publications was duplicated. To be acces free or even at a cheaper rate, thereby rendering my original copy useless.
Because, me as a person will not leave a cheap and still quality materials to buy the same material at a high price.

So the issue of piracy should be treated with every necessity.
I came across the rule and punishment attached to anyone who published a work that doesn't belong to him, long time ago when I went IT at national library.
But looking at our society today, I think we're beginning to neglect the rule.