Hurah, we are back to "non-zero sum"! On 15/08/07, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 15/08/07, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > If a drinks company is giving away a can of drink free at a railway > > station (which happens), does that entitle you to go into Sainsburys and > > take one without paying for it? > > > > No, that would be stealing, I would be depriving the original owners of a > can of drink, What I would do isn't stealing, no one loses anything, or are > you one of those people who wilfully spreads the misconception that > copyright infringement = theft? > > If you are, well it doesn't. One deprives someone of a tangeable object, > that actually costs something to distribute, the other is data that can, and > is, being distributed virtually for free. > > Vijay. > > > > >
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