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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Like I said, people who want to say that piracy is not theft are doing so because they want to feel better about the activity.
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Or because the words are different and the differences matter. I'm not trying to feel better about anything. If you've infringed an author's copyright, and cost them money, that's wrong.
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If you are taking something that you have not been given as a gift or purchased, you are stealing.
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Mash-ups are copyright infringement. If I own all of the source material, what have I stolen?
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There are nuances in the law that might allow you to legally call it something else but you are stealing.
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It's not a nuance, they are fully separate offences under the legal system. They're not even considered related under the law.
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The author has a right to be paid for his work. If you are chosing to take the work and not pay for it, you are depriving the author of his/her money.
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Agreed.
No agreement.
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Fall back on the legal definition all you want but you are trying to pretty up what you are doing.
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Either that, or you're trying to frame an argument around what's convenient for you while ignoring perfectly legitimate positions.