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Well if that story holds true then the boy isn't to blame but the 'friend' since they originally stole it.

Technically, if you've downloaded a codex without paying for it but you would never buy it and would rather take notes against your buddies army and everything that army does or just borrow and copy the important bits is it really theft? Or does the law prohibit you borrowing or taking notes? If so I'm sueing my kindergarten teacher for making me share with other children then sueing my professors for making me take notes.

People with mental issues shouldnt be in gamesworkshop playing some games that needs high mental quality.

I disagree. I have 3 mental disorders and do just fine at the game.

Meh, my OCD can get in the way of games, when I try to pretty up unit formations with symmetry, and the templates murder me.

Luco wrote:Technically, if you've downloaded a codex without paying for it but you would never buy it and would rather take notes against your buddies army and everything that army does or just borrow and copy the important bits is it really theft?

Yes it would be considered illegal seeing how it is copyrighted, and your attempt at trying to justify it makes little to no sense.

Im in the group that took some toy when he was 5 or 6, got spanked by my dad, then marched back into the store to hand it back to the manager and apologize. The whole process took about 5 minutes because i was crying so hard from getting in trouble i couldnt form words. My dad and the manager just sat there until i composed myself, muffled an im sorry i took it. Then i got home and was grounded for a week.

Most traumatic thing ever, i never stole again.

I've stolen a bunch of stuff, mostly toys or hockey-cards and the like. Back then I didn't understand the moral, and my parents never really told me it was wrong.

Nowdays I don't, because I myself have had stuff stolen from me, and seen how people reacts when their stuff are taken, such as my sister's bike.

I've never been caught though, I doubt anyone's mourning the loss of some hockey-cards they lost some 12 years ago. *shrug* I've never taken anything of any value such as money or expensive things because I had in mind to profit from it, just things I wanted but wouldn't get from my parents.

I don't download codices illegally, I check my friends' codices and look at those in the store, sometimes looking at the internet if there's any details I'm searching for in times when the store is closed and my friends aren't around. Besides I've got most 3'rd ed codices and can find most I need about a team in those, as most weapon characteristics or unit profiles doesn't change a lot between the editions (Except of course the Thousand sons, whom I've got 4 different characteristics for in 4 different GW books/codices xD)

c34r34lk1ll3r wrote: I also steal internet from my friend's neighbors when I'm at his apartment.

i was going to say i have never stole anything ever. (im a good little roman catholic boy and brought up well ) but then this hit me and i was like, oh yeah, ive done that. only cause my aunties flat in vienna didnt have good internet so me and my brother decided to hack into some guys internet connection somewhere in the building. good connection too!

'tis a lesson to you all! put passwords on your router!

dark6spectre wrote:

c34r34lk1ll3r wrote: I also steal internet from my friend's neighbors when I'm at his apartment.

i was going to say i have never stole anything ever. (im a good little roman catholic boy and brought up well ) but then this hit me and i was like, oh yeah, ive done that. only cause my aunties flat in vienna didnt have good internet so me and my brother decided to hack into some guys internet connection somewhere in the building. good connection too!

'tis a lesson to you all! put passwords on your router!

On this note, is it stealing if for the first year or so i lived in my apartment i didnt pay for internet..

One of my neighbors didnt restrict access to his wireless so i just piggy backed off his for a long ass time till he moved away! Technically his domain was public and not locked...

Meh, my internet access is locked though I didn't have a password for the first week, and I found out later that I was "borrowing" my neighbor's internet.

Huh... I called a post of Tony's silly.

So he sent me a PM.

I hadn't been on dakka for a while.

So he sent me a message that I should go screw myself, and that he was ignoring me.

Good job Tony!

Inquisitor_Syphonious wrote:Meh, my internet access is locked though I didn't have a password for the first week, and I found out later that I was "borrowing" my neighbor's internet.

Huh... I called a post of Tony's silly.

So he sent me a PM.

I hadn't been on dakka for a while.

So he sent me a message that I should go screw myself, and that he was ignoring me.

Good job Tony!

Sounds about right.

I loved when he was posting outlandish army lists and commenting on how amazing army lists looked in the fantasy forums when he didnt even own a BRB or a codex for any army...

Yeah, that's about enough actually.

Really, this thread lived on longer than it probably should have.

Closed.