EliteStance said:
NJ5 said:
EliteStance said:
It's simple. Piracy is theft.
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I don't want to defend pirates here, but let's discuss things as they are, not as they aren't: theft 1 a: the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b: an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property Piracy may be many things, including some bad ones, but it doesn't imply theft. As an example, theft would be breaking into a company's facilities and stealing all their source code and developed assets (models, textures, etc). In that case, you would have actually deprived them of their property. In the context of a game the theft is considered to be from the developer and publisher who own the game. |
Theft now covers IP and intangible assets. When you pirate you are stealing the code. So let's be clear here - pirating a game is theft and is legally seen as such. |
So this is about semantics and definitions which got changed to specifically cover something? It seems to me like you were evoking theft as a way to get an emotional response which is traditionally associated with the definition of theft I pasted above.
You even referred to examples such as stealing a TV or food. Correct me if I'm wrong.
