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Originally Posted by HansTWN
The difference for digital items is that the copy is 100% the same as the original. And you agreed not to copy it, except for personal use, when you bought it. That is why the definition of theft had to be adjusted.
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Except the notion that it
isn't theft originates with individuals (i.e.: "the people", if you will) whereas the notion that it
is theft originates with corporations.
And since there are far more of the former than of the latter, I do not see how it will be tenable to keep personal/non-profit copyright infringement illegal on the long term... unless of course it perpetually continues to be hardly ever prosecuted.
Non-commercial copyright infringement by an individual is theft the way drinking alcohol is drug-abuse. Yes it is... but suggesting that calling it thus tells the whole story is so misleading it might as well be wrong.
Or so I believe.
- Ahi