Piracy not theft because its a copy..

[superchunk]

Gnizmo said:

superchunk said:
@Crashdown, while I like your line of thinking, that is easily refuted as it actually directly affects and harms the original person's credit.

Their argument is that copying the content does no harm.

Either way both are theft as you're taking something you have no consent to have.

Total bullshit, and if you were actually reading the replies you would know this. The argument is nothing of the sort. It is that theft and copyright infringement are fundamentally different. If you haven't even got the basics of the counter-argument down then you are clearly just throwing out rhetoric in hopes that everyone else gives up and thus you are "proven" right. I like to call this the Crazzyman strategy.

Copyright infringement, while given a different name is essentially theft by definition.

If you where reading reply's you would see that has been demonstrated many times already.

Most of the replys stem from my comment that a digital copy harms no one and thus is ok. Only a few people have argued the theft != copyright infringement, by far not the majority.