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Originally Posted by MovieBird
Copyright infringement is NOT stealing. Please don't muddy the waters with another inaccurate analogy.
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Bull. You're stealing someone's rights. You're stealing someone's control.
Basing an argument or a believe on such a daft semantic distinction is tedious at best, and evidence of a wholly unsupportable position at worst.
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I lean rather Libertarian in my views. In my opinion, if something does not cause harm to an external person, then I just don't care. Shoplifting deprives a store owner of an item for which they paid money.
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As a libertarian (note the lower case l) myself, I don't see how you can call yourself that if you're restricting your libertarian views to only things that cause physical or direct financial harm. Having ones rights and liberties damaged is absolutely harm that is just as real, just of a different nature.
Or would you argue that any strangers passing by your house should be allowed to enter your house, hang around, watch tv, stare at you for a bit while you sleep, as long as the don't physically beat your or take anything? No harm done, right?
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Piracy, in this context, does not deprive anyone of a physical thing. It is argued that it deprives content creators of 'possible' income.
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It deprives them of their right to control their work. It deprives them of protection under the law. It deprives them of the peace of mind that a society of law brings to the people.