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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
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Oh good, I can see this thread is already on the verge of descending into the usual "copyright infringement is not stealing", "yes it is", "no it's not..." argument.
Perhaps a modest proposal is in order to avoid that messiness: Given Stonetools' comments above, instead of using the terms "stealing", "file sharing" or "copyright infringement", can we simply use "genocide" to describe the practice of downloading a file without colour of right?
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Let's use "smurfing" instead of "stealing" or "sharing". The smurfs themselves tended to use it as any part of speech they wished, and it appeared to have no specific connotation.