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Originally Posted by Xenophon
@MoeJoe (and others) on theft, bits, and potentially infinite replication: I've been on both sides of this issue during my time in the software industry. I worked for many years at a startup company that produced high-end compilers and development tools for the embedded systems industry. My paycheck depended directly on the company being paid for its products.
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I agree with everything you have to say (I'm a software developer too), but it still doesn't change the fact that it has nothing to do with theft. Whether you agree with copyright or not, copyright infringement has nothing to do with theft. Defending your copyrights and getting paid for your work are absolutely you're right. But it's not theft! Deliberately confusing the terms (or just parroting the industries deliberate confusion) doesn't help anything except to further spread mis-information. I think that's the point people are trying to make.
At this point in the game, I think the whole "copyright infringement is not theft" thing has been discussed so many times, that the only people still perpetuating that myth are doing it on purpose.