superchunk said:
Kasz216 said:
superchunk said:
zarx said:
superchunk said:
Seece said:
Akvod said:
The difference is in consent. You can gain ownership, permanent or temporary, for free if you have the consent of the original owner.
Taking someone's property without their consent, is theft, a violation of their property rights, and their natural right as a human being. It is in essence, slavery, since you're making someone slave away creating something, and then just taking it away. It's not an issue of compensation either. It's CONSENT. |
Good post, sums it up perfectly.
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I agree. Forget my post above, the definition of consent and theft is clearest difference.
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well how about the difference between piracy and theft (theft = taking something from someone) (piracy = creating a copy of something that remains in possession of the owner)
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"Taking someone's property (which includes digital copies) without their consent, is theft..."
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I agree. So if they went into the developers computers, cut and pasted the game and left... they would be "taking their digital copies." Instead people are making their own digital copies. |
I don't know why I choose to get into these threads. Its always the same lame argument that a copy is not theft since the original still exists. But, that simply ignorant and petty. Its just a way for theives to tell themselves its ok, I'm not really commiting a crime.
Simply put, they don't have consent to make a copy and therefore doing so is theft of the content.
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It's not lame. It's factual. The original still exists so it's not theft. Just how painting an exact copy of the mona lisa isn't theft because the Mona Lisa is still sitting in the Louvre. Software piracy is just a hell of a lot easier. Hence why it's illegal. (I believe it's not illegal to copy the mona lisa unless you sell it claiming to be the Mona lisa. Hence why reproductions are legal.)
Also, I do not pirate. So try again.
