George Hotz Runs Away to South America; Lies About Having PSN Account

[vlad321]

Calmador said:

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.

"In criminal law, theft is the illegal taking of another person's property without that person's freely-given consent"

The only way you can argue that piracy is theft is if you classify ideas as property and that when I buy a game the game isn't mine, but the person to whose idea it is.

However if you go down the path of classifying ideas as properties, you run into so many problems and pitfalls, that you realize it is just silly to consider ideas the same as physical property. Therfore, you are wrong.