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Originally Posted by kennyc
It's theft. Calling it otherwise hides the real issue.
It's theft of intellectual property.
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I disagree. If I steal your intellectual property that means you lose all rights to it because I took them.
If on the other hand I pirate something you have the rights to, I may have stolen that particular royalty payment, but you still own the rights to your work. And because I'm an honest pirate, if you tell me a way to pay you directly, that will guarantee that you get all the money rather than the majority of it going to publishers, ad agencies and other middle men, then I'll pay you. But if most of my payment ends up going to someone other than the person who created the book/song/movie/game, then there's something wrong with that as well.
All of the above is, of course, strictly hypothetical.
