Argh! Is this stealing? Piracy, Ethics, etc.

[Oldern]

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where do thoughts, dreams, ideas, inspirations all come from?

the One Infinite Creator.

it is STS to lock up what the Creator has given to you.

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getting payment/appreciation/work for your efforts is an unrelated issue to do with our economic structure; one that is STS at heart.

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there comes a clash at times.

but the Law of One is available freely online. Carla asks you to pay for her books because, well, she has to pay the publishers and trees to print them.

but the Information is there, given freely. As are all the Q'uo transcripts.

and what we do here, on these forums, is giving freely of our time and ideas.

this is the Creator in action my friends.

Plenum, let me tell you a tale.
The biggest saints/wanderers/"heroes" in our existence usually came with this message:

Do not do to others what you do not expect to be done to yourself as well.
If we go along with this spiritual guidance, I think that it is only natural that if others decide that they want to protect their own work behind a barrier of entry, they are free to do so - and we, as positive beings, totally respect that. We do not go around parading about our rights to do whatever we want because everything comes from the Creator anyway.

There is a sense of uniqueness to everything that is created here, and that is to be respected, imho.

Of course, this goes both ways, and this is the hard lesson: I should not be telling you to respect others wishes to protect their music, work, etc - because that would be the same as someone demanding others to change their ways of life. But I think this analogy might help someone to realize that there is an overall positive way to think about this.

And that is: support and love those who are not protecting their work and make things available freely - and simply ignore or pass by those who choose to protect it by a barrier of entry. Anything else (demanding free stuff, etc) is just an unnecessary "I want everything" song of our egos, I think. Heck, even purely pirating something and not thinking about it is more positive imho than pirating AND complaining about needing to pirate this instead of getting it for free anyway.