the-pi-guy said:
Considering piracy is a legal term, that comparison makes no sense. |
It's not just a legal term. There's piracy in the legal sense, and piracy in the Plain English sense. Just like how there's murder in the legal sense, and murder in the Plain English sense. If a country passes a law saying that strangulation isn't murder, that just means it isn't murder in the legal sense. In the Plain English sense however it is still murder.
Here's a real life example: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/8/8909133/civil-forfeiture-states-map In many states and counties in the USA the police can legally take your stuff "because you might have used it to commit a crime" and sell it later. Clearly this is outright theft. But the law allows this so legally it isn't theft. Even though it plainly is.
Another great example of the law being made up nonsense is the Dredd Scott slavery case from the 1800's. This guy was clearly a free man legally speaking, but the Supreme Court at the time ruled otherwise. The law could say in no uncertain terms that emulation of current gen games is piracy, but if a random judge rules that it isn't then legally it isn't. We could pass a law tomorrow saying that pizza is illegal, but if the Supreme Court rules that pizza is legal, then it is.
Or how you can be charged with murder, have ten witnesses confirm your alibi, but still get convicted, because your lawyer failed to get their testimony within an arbitrary cutoff period.
Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - on 23 January 2020
