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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
You can "steal" Windows 7 by breaking into Fry's and taking a box of discs out under your coat. (Well, theoretically, anyway.) That counts as petty theft in the state I'm in; potentially good for up to a year in jail, and several thousand dollars worth of fines.
You can't "steal" Windows 7 from a bittorrent network. You can potentially "violate copyright"--up to $150,000 worth of fines for a single event.
If it's "theft," why isn't it prosecuted as theft, in relation to the dollar value of what was "stolen?"
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This discussion has gone an ad nauseum on MR. To me you are arguing semantics. Call it what you will... either way it is wrong. I think we all know the difference between right and wrong.
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