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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
I think that, at last, this thread has finally finished the "piracy is theft" debate. Here's my air-tight logical argument:
A: copyright infringement is theft
B: theft is a crime
C: therefore, copyright infringement is a crime
D: all criminals think that what they do is right
E: people only feel guilt when they think that what they do is not-right
F: therefore, all criminals are not guilty
G: therefore, copyright infringers are not guilty
H: people who are not guilty are not criminals
I: therefore, copyright infringers are not criminals
J: which is a contradiction compared to C
Any assertion that leads to a contradiction is false.
Therefore, copyright infringement is not theft
QED.
Thank goodness for that.
What are you reading?
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What's
Quantum Electrodynamics got to do with it?
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Yes, I know—after all, I'm the one who submitted the hyper-linked copy of Spinoza's Ethics to MobileRead! The textbooks say it stands for quod erat demonstrandum,
which means "that which was to be demonstrated,"
but I think it means, "So there!")
