psychicscubadiver said:
potato_hamster said:
It's not theft of intellectual property, it's misuse of intellectual property. It's using IP in a way which you have no legal right to. For example. If I buy a legal copy of a blu-ray, digitize it, and then sell it to my friends for $5, I have no taken anything from anybody, but I am certainly breaking copyright law, because I made and sold copies of a file I had no right to copy and sell.
And why are you acting as if I think this is legal or moral? I never said copyright infringment was acceptable or legal. It isn't acceptable or legal, and I say this as someone who has been negatively impacted by copyright infringement. I only claimed it wasn't theft/stealing. Because it isn't. That doesn't make it okay.
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How do you explain identity theft?
The thief is not actually taking someone's identity away from them, just copying their data and using it for their own purposes without permission.
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Identity theft has nothing to do with copyright. Besides, in many places, it is known as "identity fraud" for a reason.