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Originally Posted by pietrocrazy
Copyright is not theft. Even most people who are pro-copyright agree that it is not theft. Even most people who think copyright infringement is morally wrong don't think it's theft. Even the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that copyright infringement is not theft.
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The US Supreme Court in MGM v Grokster (2005) Justice Breyer said the following in his concurring decision:
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No one disputes that “reward to the author or artist serves to induce release to the public of the products of his creative genius.” United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 334 U. S. 131, 158 (1948). And deliberate unlawful copying is no less an unlawful taking of property than garden-variety theft.
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