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

[vlad321]

Calmador said:

vlad321 said:

Calmador said:

'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.

I'm not talking about the legal definition. I'm talking about it morally.

Yes intillectual property can be stolen, it is sold for the ownership of ONE person, not as many copies as you can make. You weren't sold infinite copies of the game. It can be stolen, physcially, a game disc from a retail store or just dowloading a copy from a torrent or a copy from a friend. What's not to understand?

So then you don't own the games you buy? Even better, you are implying that ideas are like physical property. What happens when two people come up with the same ideas? What about when a person has an idea but doesn't do anything about it, but someone else realizes it? I had the ida of YouTube back in 2000, yet no one paid me money when someone else made it. Furthermore, how long are ideas your property? They never rust, wear out, or break, so how long should an idea be property, and why such a length of time?

There are dozens and dozens of other problems with your train of thought, which is the exact reason why treating an idea as property, the way you do, is just plain wrong.