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What If Senarios" are complete bullshit because :
What if the world blew the fuck up in two minutes, then nothing would matter right?
Reasonable people know the difference between copying part of something for commentary
and distributing material solely to give it away for free. One of the aforementioned processes is copyright infringement and the other is call "fair use".
Plain and simple : Uploading something that is accessible to anyone on the internet is
publishing and distributing it. Those are rights of the copyright holder and the only exception is under fair use for educational, commentary and news reporting.
Uploading a "complete work" is almost always going to be a violation except under
very narrow cases of "fair use".
People want shit for free and they will simply convince themselves of why it's right just
like any crook justifies his actions in his mind.
If any of the pro file sharing arguments had validity then years ago we would have seen
"pirate" TV stations poping up all over the place that showed content from ABC, NBC and CBS. But we never saw that because the air waves were easier to police than the internet.