[Good Old Neon]

Originally Posted by Shaggy

It's a lot more than just semantics. There are significant differences in the effects and reasons for the level of punishment associated with the two. Theft and copyright infringement have nothing to do with each other. There's a reason that real theft is a much more serious crime than copyright infringement, and there are also reasons why certain people want you to confuse the two.

That works both ways. It appears to me as though defenders of filesharing would also like to blur the line and definition of “theft” for their own selfish purposes.