wii modchips what do ppl use them for?

[kn]

Katilian said:

kn said:

Morgyn said:
Stealing and Video Game piracy isn't the same thing so your analogue is incorrect.

By stealing you are actually taking something away, depriving someone of something they have. By Video Game piracy, you are taking a POTENTIAL sale away, so a more correct analogue would be to buy or make your own Ferrari kit car clone than to buy an actual Ferrari.

Ferrari has lost the potential sale and you have a /similar/ product.

Its not perfect, but its more correct than yours.

Are you familiar with the term "intellectual property"? It doesn't matter in the eyes of the law whether a ferrari or a line of code. You are stealing. Period. There is no other way to define it. Unless the IP owner grants you specific permission to use their property free (and it is property) you have stolen it regardless of whether or not you would have bought it otherwise. There is no other way to define it unless you implicitly condone piracy.

Uhh, no, and if you'd read my post you'd understand why. There is another way to define it, copyright infringement. If the law doesn't need to differentiate between the two then why bother with a Copyright Act?

Since you suggest there is no other way to define it unless you condone it, I guess many legal systems condone piracy.

Edit: And again Morgyn beats me to the punch

I understand your post completely.  If you read my post as well, you'll notice that I'm not focusing on copyright infringment vs. larceny.  They are different laws primarily because of the english common law roots of larceny having little in its language to support intellectual property because of the whole issue of "deprivation".  IP laws, alothough varying in great degrees worldwide, were put in place to protect property of the mind in the same manner that tangible, physical property is protected.  My point is that whether it is larceny or copyright infringment, if the user gains any benefit whatsoever from pirating (and they will get some amount of benefit, even if they play the game for 1 minute and decide they don't like it and delete it) it is still theft.  Period.  Again, in the eyes of the law, you have "stolen" and are punishable in a court of law.  We are splitting hairs here as you well know, but boil it down to the basics and don't overthink it.  We all know why IP laws exist...