Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Please. downloading books from the darknet or torrents is called piracy for a reason.
|
Hyperbole?
You seem to be operating under the assumption that if copyright infringement isn't theft, then it's automatically good and proper. But really, you're just analogizing "theft" and "copyright infringement" and claiming they're equivalent concepts because they have some of the same features.
I don't really think anyone is saying that "copyright infringement isn't theft, so that makes it okay". I think what people are actually saying is "the word "theft" doesn't mean the same thing as the words "copyright infringement", and I'm not saying anything about the rightness or wrongness of copyright infringement."
The TL;DR version - Words have different meanings, and that's okay.
To breakdown your argument to its bare essentials:
