Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
You can say that copyright is theft, but based on what? Property exists without government, you can carry your possessions on your body or lock them up to prevent others from taking them.
But copyright is meaningless without government; copyright is a government-granted limited time monopoly on copying. Unlike physical property, once you let people read a book, there's nothing you can do to prevent them from copying it. You can get the government to enforce your limited time monopoly.
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