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Originally Posted by dmikov
I personally see no contradiction. While copyright might indeed be a property, violating itstill is not theft . Since you still have your copyright - it was not taken from you. You can still sell your movie rights et cetera. You can use it and it still have the same value.
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How can it have the same value? If you steal one square of my milk chocolate bar I can still eat what's left of it, but it's a diminished bar of chocolate. In the same way if you break my copyright (if I had copyrighted anything, that is) it simply cannot have the same value. To say it does is just ludicrous. The amount that it has been diminished may be almost infinitesimally small, but it is not zero.
I'm all for changing copyright laws by the way, but not by spouting logical fallacies.