thief

do you ever been called a thief for assessing/downloading illegal pdf chess book? How it hurts you when you are called a thief.

I know information wants to be free, but this is the first I've heard of this phenomenon.  If there's a Pirate Bay for chess books, it should be called Patzer Bay. 

Lol@mickynj, whose position might be righteous if American copyright law had stuck to the Constitutional vision of "for a reasonable time" instead of being extended again and again by Congress at the behest of moneyed content providers (Disney et. al., cf. Sonny Bono Copyright Act) who are determined to extend it into perpetuity, thereby stifling innovation.  The implication of stealing something is that its rightful owner no longer possesses it. 

Once upon a time, a civil matter was being heard in the court of Judge Roy Bean, the law west of the Pecos.  Judge Bean asked counsel to approach the bench for input on a point of law.  One of the lawyers drew a Bowie knife from his belt, laid it on the bench and said "This, Your Honor, is the law out here."  The other lawyer drew a Colt .45 Peacemaker from his belt, laid it on top of the knife and said "And this, Your Honor, is the Constitution that overrides the law."

I don't have an illegal download problem, it's the content providers.  Part of being successful in life is rigorously defining the boundary between your problems and somebody else's problems, for which you have no responsibility.  This problem is of the content providers' own making through a surfeit of greed and their ability to bribe our elected legislators to serve capital, rather than we who vote, and because they created it by themselves, they can solve it by themselves.  I have never illegally downloaded content, but my position is neutral toward those who do.  My position is negative toward the stance of unflinching, unquestioning obedience to law (cf. Nuremberg).  In El Salvador, a woman can get thirty years in prison for having a miscarriage.  I propose that you go to El Salvador and tell the women there to stop miscarrying their pregnancies.  

I regret it today. Chess is only for illicit and only extra-ordinally people like Carlsen could make a  living out of chess.chess has no place for the intermediate player.for them, it's just a game.

As I said in my last comment, I have never illegally downloaded content, but I have broken the law on numerous other occasions.  There is no objective justice because there is no objective reality; the photon that bounced off the object, enabling you to image it, changed it so that it is no longer what you see.  Between the capitalist rentiers and the free people stand the slavishly obedient, you keep happy and above all safe, @mickynj.    

what if we steal music CDs from a store. Do we not feel guilty of our action after some years.How can we reproach of our action? Should we throw or burn our beloved CDs?to whom should we give an apology for our action?

Probably hurts the author more who is relying on book sales to feed his family.

Well spotted.

You should make a donation to a musicians benevolent association. They try to help poor musicians who never quite made the big time....in part because people like you have no respect for another's intellectual property

 my feeling is total worse. I have stolen a countless number of CDs from a music store.all stolen at my teenager age. I have a mixed feeling that because of my action the store manager may fire his employee from the jobs.

So are you going to fret over it for the rest of your life. For god's sake move on and make plenty of charitable donations as pennance. You must make a great drinking buddy!