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Originally Posted by djgreedo
I don't see the term 'stealing' as problematic. It seems a waste of time to split hairs over it. It may not be a 100% accurate depiction of the nuances of digital copyright infringement, but that is analgous to stealing if not stealing in a traditional sense. It has largely the same effect on the owner of the IP (or perhaps different but equal effects).
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It is very problematic because the different kind of laws have very different motivations. People calling it stealing is trying to make people forget that copyright is a time limited monopol granted to achieve certain goals. They want to pretend that copyright is some basic right. And therefore calling it stealing is either just ignorant or dishonest.
Read some of Lessig's books and his description of how the laws in US was changed and how people changing the laws used argument from the stealing camp to motivate how they voted.