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Akvod on 31 March 2010
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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.

I agree. Forget my post above, the definition of consent and theft is clearest difference.

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)

"Taking someone's property (which includes digital copies) without their consent, is theft..."

I want to make clear that IP means the right to produce/reproduce a product or part of a product (ex. a logo), not codes and stuff. That means we can never own software. We don't have the right to reproduce completely or partly the coding of a product we bought, but we certainly own the coding we have on a disc.

 

We do this for many reasons:

1) Incentive, tired and old we all heard of this.

2) Image, brand, name tarnishing. This is both for the suppliers AND the consumers. Tyllenol is a trusted company right? You like to buy their pills, rather than pills of some random company because you know you're not going to get lead in them. How can you, as a consumer, make an educated purchase if there is no protection of labelign stuff.

Remember the scams on ebay? THREE PSs? (X-BOX) for sale? With an box and a marker scribbling of "X"?

If this is really wide spread, then we won't be able to buy products anymore, because we don't even know what we're buying.

 

Fuck, we should make everyone take basic micro and macro econ, basic political science, and a few more classes so that we can all be proper voters.