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Calmador on 26 March 2011
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Khuutra said:
Calmador said:
Khuutra said:

No. No no no no no no no.

Listen.

The reason that piracy is not theft - whihch is to say, it is copyright infringement - is because thievery necessitates the removal of property. Piracy does not take away anyone's property. It makes a copy without permission. That is why it is copyright infringement and not theft; because it doesn't take away product from anyone.

It is not theft.

It is copyright infringement.

Stop tyring to pretend that it is theft. The exercise is absurd and intellectually dishonest.

I'm not pretending.

 It's not the usual kind of theft but it's theft.

When I reach the point where I've laid out exactly why a person is wrong, and repeated that point nearly a dozen times, and shown them how their assertion is legally wrong, and why their assertion can't be right by definition

And when the person I'm talking to holds to the very fact of that wrongness, hohlding to the manner in whihch they are wrong like a man holding shut the jaws of an alligator

And holding

And holding

I sit back and I think, "I knew this would happen when I entered into this conversation."

So yes, you can have it. So be it. Continue being wrong. I have nothing else to say.

I'm not wrong.

Your defining theft on whether what you stole is physical or not. I think that doesn't matter.



All gaming systems, consoles/PC, have thier perks... why fight over preferences? I like Coke and you like Pepsi, that's it, let's not fight over which toy we like best cause that's what they are. Is someone's preference in a toy important or is the relationship between you and your neighbor more important? Answer is obvious, but THE most important thing is your relationship with God almighty. God Bless you in Jesus's name.

I can communicate without talking... I can send a loved one money without actually sending money... and I can commit theft without the product disappearing, the point of theft is the point of theft not one of it's possible symptoms which is the product dissappearing. The thief wants to gain something without paying for it, that's the point of theft, the thief doesn't have to care or anybody else has to care if the product dissappears. The product dissappearing is just a possible symptom of theft. Gifts are sacrfices, in order to give a gift, it has to be a genuine sacrfice/gift, meaning a copy of the game isn't still in your PC. Piracy is theft and/or being a culprit of theft.