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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's a matter of education. The problem we have today is that we have a generation of teenagers who have no respect for other peoples' property rights.
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And what "property rights" are you talking about?
Ideas cannot be owned. If they could, we would have no need for copyrights and patents. Property laws would be able to cover the situation.
The rhetoric of "copying is stealing" is just a smoke screen. Copying is not stealing. Name a single person who was charged with theft for copying something. You can't. Those people were charged with "copyright violation" not "theft".
Also remember that copyright was created for the benefit of
society not the author. Current copyright laws do
not benefit society and are far out of touch with reality. So why are you surprised when people ignore them?