Quote:
Originally Posted by hogleg
1. The title of this post is "interesting NY times on copyright morality." Legal arguments can not and should not be debated here. I have said that from the beginning. It's continuously ignored by you and these other yahoos who claim anything related to someone losing something real must happen before it's stolen. I suppose someone stealing your checkbook is legal if you catch them before they use it.
2. As a software developer, your company is probably a corporation, a legal entity. If I did want to argue the legality, which I don't, theft of a program stops profits to shareholders and makes a difference to them, just as it would to everyone in a publishing arena. Just because it may not be money directly taken from your pocket doesn't mean it's not theft. Where do you think the money that they pay you with comes from? Maybe from profits, which are impacted through piracy.? Try making that argument in court and see it takes more than 20 minutes to throw you in jail.
3. Something has to be unusable to me before its stolen from me? I'm sure victims of identity theft would glad to hear that. If some one stole my Identity would I cease to exist? When I write a book, and you get it without paying for it, that doesn't impact my royalties?
The rest of your arguments are absolutely stupid, and I suggest you look at the title of the thread and concern yourself with where is says "Legally, I'm not stealing, because...". Your involvement in this thread amounts to one big straw man argument. You've rebutted arguments concerning the morality of copyrights with the legal definitions and whether it's really stealing. A retarded monkey could see that it is, and you are just throwing out justifications for doing it.
Learn to argue.
|
"Poisoning the Well"...with a few "
ad hominem" attacks thrown in for good measure.
You were saying?