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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
But they ought to be interested.
Bootleg copies of a movie, say, are duplicated from an authorized or unauthorized copy. Just like with e-books, they have not stolen the original. But the police still consider the matter illegal, they can and do arrest those in possession of bootleg products, and the copyright owners can still prosecute even if you haven't "stolen" an authorized copy from them, because selling the bootleg copies violates copyright law.
So, maybe instead of theft (see? I'm conceding a point!  ), we should call the unauthorized copying and distributing of e-books "bootlegging." |
This "disgustion" is slowly turning into verbal yoga. The choice of every single word is being analyzed ad nauseum. Anyway, we have reached a stalemate, each side is just repeating the same old arguments. Time to give that old donkey a rest?