Hello,
On 9/16/07, bordercollieaustralianshepherd
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> All for protecting rights. Stealing is stealing, simple.
I know I'm arguing semantics, but... Copyright infringement isn't stealing.
Not to get into the issue of whether Copyright infringement is wrong
or right... but it's not stealing. It's not more stealing than it is
rape. It is a totally different phenomena.
Stealing requires you to physically take away and deprive, that thing
which is being stolen, from the owner. The owner must have had the
thing which was stolen in their possession before it was stolen, and
no longer have it after it was stolen.
Copyright infringement does not act like this.
When you copy a song or video, the one who has a Copyright on it still
has the song or video... they have not had it taken away or been
deprived of that song or video. (Thus it is not stealing.)
See ya
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