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Originally Posted by rationalbiker
Intellectual property should be protected just as much as real property, particularly in this day and age.
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There's no such thing as "intellectual property." If it's intellectual, it's an idea and cannot be property - and, therefore, cannot be owned.
The term "intellectual property" is something coined by the copyright maximalists to get people to think that ideas are property.
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Originally Posted by rationalbiker
I realize people want to be able to leech off producers without having to pay for things so the producers need ways to try to prevent that.
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Oh, you mean like publishers who are still printing, under copyright, works where the authors are long dead?
Or companies like Disney, who are still distributing movies made by people long dead?
Oh, yes, these people are
not leaching off of the producers.
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Originally Posted by rationalbiker
Stealing is stealing, whether it be intellectual property or real property.
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But "copyright violation" is not "stealing".