Pay, DON'T steal.

Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images and designs used in commerce. I believe it’s not correct to steal music, movies or book without paying for them. The goal of my teaching is to bring order to society, and stealing doesn’t do that. There are five encouragements: courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self control and indomitable spirit. To follow the first one, courtesy, you should always show kindness, politeness and consideration towards others, being respectful at all times. Integrity refers to being confident and doing your best in using your freedom. We should all have self control, and this applies a lot to stealing, since you should never let your weaknesses to overcome the mental discipline. Stealing goes against the virtue of honesty and taking somebody else’s possessions affects our society and others wouldn’t trust us. If you don’t have the money to pay for the product, then don’t buy it and control yourself, but stealing might bring bad consequences. Would you like it if someone stole something from you? I don’t think you will, so why do to others what you don’t like others would do to you? That’s the Golden Rule, another of my teachings: do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself. I also believe that using someone else’s work as your own without any recognition is not an ethical act. This would be the same as cheating, which is an unfair act because the stealer, or cheater, would be receiving recognition and introducing a work that’s not originally made by him or her. To stop this behaviors and decisions people make, human beings should get a more extended education that emphasizes in justice and sincerity so that it can be practiced in all social relationships.
-Kongfuzi (MJ)