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Originally Posted by Anthem
The person who takes a candy bar and replicates it a thousand times or acquires a thousand increments and sells the goods to suspecting and unsuspecting people is traditionally thought of as a pirate.
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Actually, that's a
counterfeiter.
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Originally Posted by Anthem
-The person who buys a candy bar and shares it with other people while also enjoying it for him/herself is the hard to categorize personthat industry wants to be labeled as a pirate out of convenience to their flighty prosecutorial cause.
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A person who non-commercially distributes IP without permission is a "copyright infringer."
And by now, we pretty much all know this is what we mean when we say "pirate." (And definitions change constantly; e.g. "nice" had a completely different meaning 200 or so years ago.) Quibbling over semantics doesn't really help.
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Originally Posted by Anthem
The re-defining of a person who wants to share cool S*it with people (which we have all done for our entire lives because it is a part of our nature as humans) as a bad person guilty of heinous criminal activity has been popularly accomplished or is proceeding with staggering efficiency. It is massive sleight of hand and legally treacherous to human nature.
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Err......
"Intellectual property" is a social construct. So is material property, marriage, currency, gender, law and political rights. None of these things have a "natural state." Nor is applying them "treacherous."
Humans do not necessarily have an innate desire to "share cool stuff." History is replete with secrets, exclusivity and restrictions on information, training and knowledge. E.g. the Bible wasn't translated into vernacular languages until the 1500s, and even then over the objections of the RCC; and only the elite read Latin (if at all).
I suggest you be extremely careful and circumspect when making blanket assertions about "human nature."
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Originally Posted by Anthem
Big media freaks out because average people now have their capabilities and they fear for their absolute and sovereign control over their content empires.
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Well, not exactly.
Yes, they don't want to lose control. Neither do you, yes?
But it's mostly economics, not power plays.
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So what do they do? ....redefine piracy in order to set every consumer up as not only a potential pirate, but literally sitting on the fence in a way that requires policing and guarding of content on a per-view per-instance basis because every consumer is now a threat and dangerous as a consequence, not to mention most probably a wanton criminal at heart.
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Copyright law has been around for hundreds of years, so the concept is not entirely new.
But yes, when a new technology is introduced, you're going to need to either make new laws or reshape old ones to keep up. "The laws don't keep up" is a common complaint.