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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Right. Taking what doesn't belong to you and to which you don't have the rights is just being honest and upright. No semantics here.
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Nice strawman argument, really quite a nice example of the fallacy.
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Originally Posted by tompe
You obviously do not understand it.
And regardless of that. Where did somebody claim in this thread that copyright infringement was honest and upright? You seemed to claim that (I cannot be sure since you do not use the correct terms). Did you claim that or not? If not what did you mean?
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I think you missed the memo - if you say copyright infringement is copyright infringement and not theft, then you are fine with stealing bread from the mouth's of authors' children.
Seriously though, you can analogize theft to copyright infringement for the sake of an argument if you like, but the two terms do have distinct meanings. It's too much of a simplification to go from "copyright infringement is like theft" to "copyright infringement is theft".