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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Theft by any other name is still theft. When you take something that you have no right to, call it what you will it is wrong. All legal jargon aside, the reason we are all saddled with DRM is because some people refuse to admit it is wrong.
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Absolute and total utter bollox. We have DRM because the companies want to control what you can and cannot do with what you purchase. They want to enforce the same 'scarcity' that exists in the physical world, upon the digital. And you repeat that crap like a good little consumer. Shame on you, shame.
And this isn't about legal jargon, its about basic and fundamental usage of the English language.
Theft is the taking of something that causes deprivation.
Copying is duplication without deprivation.
You cannot steal a digital copy, it is impossible.