Really good opinion piece on PC piracy

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gorgepir said:

Piracy is not stealing.
Piracy is copying.

Copyright laws suck. As long as you pay to copyright your material, you get protection. It is just a simple form of bribery. You pay to copyright, so if someone copies, they beat him up.
And finally copyright laws are for exact copies. If something binary is copied and accidentally a bit is reversed, you have not copied it, even if the code has error protection.

Not exactly.  You could get a poorman's copyright where you gain protection without paying $.  And also, their is a grey area in between fair use and an exact copy.  Pretty sure switching a bit would be a large issue if the actual program ran almost identical.