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d21lewis said:
potato_hamster said:

If only intellectual property theft and copyright infringement were the same thing.... you might have a point.

Do you have anything else you want to pretend is the same as copyright infringement so you can make yet another false equivalence?

"which can include everything from trade secrets and proprietary products and parts to movies, music, and software. "

 

I can see you're getting agitated. Your responses seem hostile. I'll admit you're right. Two different crimes. Happy Independence Day!

That's probably why I don't equate piracy to copyright infringement. Not all piracy is copyright infringement, and not all copyright infringement is piracy.

Besides, I've already demonstrated where the law actually stands on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement

"Copyright holders frequently refer to copyright infringement as theft. In copyright law, infringement does not refer to theft of physical objects that take away the owner's possession, but an instance where a person exercises one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder without authorization. Courts have distinguished between copyright infringement and theft. For instance, the United States Supreme Court held in Dowling v. United States (1985) that bootleg phonorecords did not constitute stolen property. Instead,

"interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a copyright: '[...] an infringer of the copyright.'""

What more needs to be said?