Theft is a very forced metaphor for software piracy

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Onyxmeth said:

gergroy said:
I don't agree at all, theft is a very proper metaphor and is correctly used.

If you offer a service to people, say you walk their dogs. You would expect to get paid for that service right? What happens when somebody doesn't pay, is that stealing? They stole that time and effort you put forward to walking their dog.

So, if somebody is walking hundreds of dogs, but only half the people pay, the dog walker still gets paid, but not as much as he earned.

Piracy is theft. You can say "oh, but they weren't going to pay for their dogs to get walked anyway." Well thats fine, they shouldn't have their dogs walked then. It's not fair to the other people that paid to have their dogs walked and it most certainly is not fair to the dog walker himself.

The article is talking about the legal term of theft, not the slang term you're using to describe it as. For your information, your ridiculous analogy isn't theft either.

I can't remember who, but someone mentioned in the other piracy thread about murder. There's a phrase "stealing a life" which is how you are using the terms stealing and theft. However, you don't get tried in court for theft when you murder someone, and that is the difference between something legally being theft and people just using the word stealing to describe whenever something is either literally or metaphorically taken from someone.

that doesn't forbids RIAA crazy settlement and fines they are setting to users.

if piracy it's really stealing what the poor people are getting fines thats go way over murder.

if someone steals a cd get just a few  hundreds fine?

 

it's crazy, and seriously they just use to get money.