Resolved Question: How can we respect others intellectual property?

You respect others' property by not taking as your own something that is not yours. We learn it as toddlers, then forget the concept by the time we reach middle school, for some reason.

The same way you wouldn't dream of eating someone else's lunch just because it was there, you don't copy & paste articles off the internet and turn it in on a composition with your name on it. To claim their words as your words is stealing.

What about music and books? Just because they're there, digitally speaking, does not make them yours. You should buy, not pirate, software, music, movies that are the creative work of another. I know that "everybody" does it. However, right is right even if nobody is right; wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong.

I'll get off my soapbox now. Hope this helps.

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