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Originally Posted by carld
If people aren't saying that content piracy isn't bad (even though lots of people here do), then why keep bringing up the irrelevant argument that it isn't theft? It's just intentionally arguing over a definition in order to muddy the waters and derail the discussion.
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It wasn't the people who say content piracy isn't bad who brought up irrelevant argument about theft.
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Originally Posted by carld
Edit: I know full well how the dictionary and criminal code defines theft. What I don't know is why some people are so insistent that the legal definition is what matters in this case, and why making that distinction is so important when it's tangential at best.
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Because pretending it is anything other than copyright infringement always leads to 10 pages of oh yes it is oh no it isn't crap to wade through. It's pointless and it's counter productive. Even if you almost managed to change someone's mind with mental images of fields full of starving writers covered in flies, as soon as you bring up the theft word you lose them again.