What is the ruling on benefiting from YouTube videos that explain Windows, given the possibility that it is pirated, and does the ruling on intellectual property rights apply to explaining free programs available in the Play Store when creating a video?
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The questioner is not permitted to abandon something beneficial to them merely because of the possibility that its origin might be usurped or acquired unlawfully. The fundamental principle is that what is in a Muslim's possession is their property. The unknown is like the non-existent; if we do not know the status of the money in their possession, we base the matter on the original principle. Similarly, programs that their owners make available to the general public, there is no objection to benefiting from them and using them according to the owners' terms.
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