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Guest_rookie
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27 June 2008
United States
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Assume you enter a bookstore and photocopy all the books. Does the bookstore owner still have possession of every book in the store? Yes. Has the owner's ability to sell those books to other customers been disrupted in any way? No. This is where it doesn't sound like theft to me; the bookstore owner is no better or worse off than if you never existed. In the case of copyright infringement, the owner of the product did not pay money to produce the copy you acquired outside of their distribution method. They do not have additional costs due to your infringing act, and their ability to sell the product to others has not been inhibited by your acquisition. Their accounting balance sheet, whether you acquire an infringing copy or leave the product alone, looks exactly the same. I agree that the act can very easily be considered *wrong*; the discussion is not about whether it's right or wrong, and those claiming it's not theft are not saying it's acceptable. However, the label of "theft" needs to be reconsidered if the owner loses nothing in the process, specifically if they're exactly the same whether the act occurred or not. |
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Guest_steve jorbs
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27 June 2008
American Samoa
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if i could make a copy of a 52" tv then i would so pirate it. |
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Guest_Dwayne
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27 June 2008
United States
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If the music costs too much, don't buy it! Finding a way that allows you to take and use something without the owner permission is stealing |
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Guest_me
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27 June 2008
United States
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I'm not going to try to justify piracy. It just straight up saves me a lot of money. :-P |
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Guest_Steve
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27 June 2008
Afghanistan
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"So if I walk into a bookstore with a laptop and a scanner, scan every book in the store, and walk out without paying, that shouldn't count as theft?"
No, not unless you take the books with you... copyright infringement, I suppose. Loitering, certainly. But scanning all those will take days, and obstruct paying customers from easy access to the books they need (you'll be in the way). However, via piracy you could build a large library in mere hours, and inconvenience nobody. |
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Guest_Azradesh
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27 June 2008
United Kingdom
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Theft, legally, requires the the removal of someones property ie: they no longer have it any more. "(theft) signifies the secret and felonious abstraction of the property of another for sake of lucre, without his consent."
Piracy is not theft, but it is copyright infringement. |
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Guest_TR
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27 June 2008
United States
male
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Classic economic "free rider" problem. People can partake in piracy only because others are paying for the resource. Free riders get all of the benefit, but none of the burden. Just about everything that people are pirating cost both time and money to make. Is it cheaper and easier to obtain these works via piracy? Of course. Are you receiving benefit from a product/service/work without compensating the system that created it? Of course. Without the creator consent, it's hard to argue that it's not morally wrong. |
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Guest_gatzke
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27 June 2008
Canada
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If I duplicated a bookshelf from IKEA using my own wood and screws, does that mean I stole the bookshelf from IKEA? |
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Guest_moo
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27 June 2008
Canada
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Piracy is stealing and the world will be a better place when we admit we're all doing it. I'm tired of dancing around the issue while a bunch of people try to justify their actions, I steal music by copying it and not paying for it. |
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Guest_masrhon
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27 June 2008
United Kingdom
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"those ideas remove itself when people launch their own works.."
if it wasnt for piracy, my music wouldnt be heard otherwise. musicians want to get paid? start gigging... that simple. or sign a publishing deal so you get paid when ur music appears in commercials films and video games. |
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Guest_soutpiel
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27 June 2008
South Africa
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Piracy is the compromise between feeling guilty about stealing something and feeling ripped-off buying something. |
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Guest_fish
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26 June 2008
United States
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those ideas itself unexpressed cannot of one mind be...
piracy is piracy but music costs too much |
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Guest_Bryan
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26 June 2008
United States
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Only because people have a sense of entitlement. People make all manner of art, technology, etc regardless of whether there is a per-copy compensation. |
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Guest_max
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26 June 2008
United States
male
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So if I walk into a bookstore with a laptop and a scanner, scan every book in the store, and walk out without paying, that shouldn't count as theft? The notion that only physical objects has value has no meaning in the digital age. |
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