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Originally Posted by carld
>We need people to stop calling copyright infringement "stealing," for starters
I will never stop calling it stealing, because that's what it is.
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But if so at least it is only stealing from thieves, con-men, and grifters. Because that is exactly what those who have lobbied outside the public eye to create today's ludicrously extended copyrights have shown themselves to be.
Who cares if the local drug dealers gun each other down in a gang war? As long as they don't hit bystanders, I have never cared. It makes the world a cleaner place.
I have never cared when on class of charlatan is preyed upon by another.