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Originally Posted by rlauzon
There's no such thing as "intellectual property."
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Intellectual property is a valid concept.
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Oh, you mean like publishers who are still printing, under copyright, works where the authors are long dead?
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Yes, them too. Did it sound as though I was excluding anyone who was taking something that they had no right to take? I don't think so. Whoever does hold the copyright should seek civil redress against whoever is printing that material.
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Oh, yes, these people are not leaching off of the producers.
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Sounds to me like they are, or at least they are leeching off whoever does have the copyright.
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But "copyright violation" is not "stealing".
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I'm afraid we will have to disagree. Taking something that one has not earned, that does not belong to them, which rightfully belongs to another is theft. I know folks like to rationalize that to themselves, but that is what it is, rationalization.