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Originally Posted by Mortis
Ok, to me taking something I haven't paid for is theft, call it what you will.
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Except, of course, that with copyright infringement you haven't "taken" anything. So I think we can both agree that no theft has occurred, not even in spirit.
From what I've seen, people insist on characterizing copyright infringement as "theft" because "copyright infringement" just doesn't sound evil enough. If you can get people to equate it to theft, then you're half way to getting them to agreeing that it's just plain bad.
Which would be fine if it the issue was really that simple. But the fact that we're 40-odd pages into this thread should be a wee hint that it's a little more complicated than that.