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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I prefer the term copyright infringement. It is the mark.
I am tired of the misuse of the term piracy to describe what is, for the most part, petty theft.
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Would you make any distinction between the "seriousness" of downloading a copy of a book without paying for it, and re-selling multiple copies of that book on eBay for cash?
I mentioned elsewhere that last year someone was selling duplicated CDs of my software on eBay. It wasn't only my software he was selling, it was all sorts of things - Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, etc. In the previous month alone, from his past auction results I could see that he'd made over £2000 ($4000) from his auctions of illegal software.
To my mind, that is serious crime, not petty theft. Would you agree?