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Originally Posted by veysey
Sure, and that's really the point of my post. As you state, piracy in this context is not theft. It's the unlawful duplication of copyrighted material. Material theft of a finite good is not legally equivalent to copyright infringement. The original poster goes beyond the use of the generic term "piracy" and brings theft into it, further reinforcing this implied equivalence, and leading to my need to respond.
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That's very true but, if we're being accurate about the meaning of words, what the chaps in Somalia are doing isn't piracy either, or theft. Piracy is "robbery at sea". The Somali "pirates" kidnap ships and their crews and hold them to ransom. That is not, technically speaking, piracy. Nor is it theft, since there is no intention to permanently deprive the owner of their property, but merely to remand the payment of a ransom for its return. It's kidnapping.