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Originally Posted by Wasgo
Any opinions that want to declare that copyright infringement definitively is or isn't theft, (or ought to be, or ought not to be theft) based on the historical meaning or current usage of the word cannot be proven, and rely upon particular linguistic theories.
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Just one closing statement: Whoever insists on calling violations or infringements of copyright "theft" usually doesn't know better--or, increasingly, has a hidden agenda. It's really very much like "piracy" again, which used to be reserved for violent crimes committed on the high seas until the content industry began to apply it indiscriminately.
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They want to apply the same emotional connotations of the existing words to a problem that most people don't care much about.
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Exactly.