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...crimes go, downloading has a distinctly victimless feel to it--can anything this fun be wrong?--but there are real consequences. Click by click, file by file, we are tearing the entertainment industry apart. CD shipments last year were down 9%, on top of a 6% decline in 2001. A report by Internet services company Divine estimates pirates swap between 400,000 and 600,000 movies online every day. It's information-superhighway robbery...
...status quo would be acceptable, though still unattractive, if cheating were a victimless crime. But most large science classes—incidentally the places where copying on problem sets is most apt to occur—are graded on a curve. This creates a zero-sum situation, where any points people gain by cheating do not simply help them, but hurt others...
...justified my cheating by the fact that I thought it was a dumb requirement,” Bobby says. “It’s really easy to rationalize as well because you know a lot of people do it, and in the end, it’s victimless...
...justified my cheating by the fact that I thought it was a dumb requirement,” Bobby says. “It’s really easy to rationalize as well because you know a lot of people do it, and in the end, it’s victimless...
...more important issues, such as terrorism and violent crime, while the ONDCP could shift its focus to more harmful drugs like cocaine and heroin. Decriminalization would save billions of dollars in taxes every year and rescue hundreds of thousands of citizens from the humiliation of being arrested for a victimless crime...