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Originally Posted by rogue_ronin
'Course, if you could get into a Ferrari and drive away -- yet leave an exact duplicate behind, there wouldn't really be a crime, now would there?
A Ferrari would have no value at all.
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Lol, if that would have been possible than they would never even have bothered to create that first Ferrari. Copying hurts the creators and takes away the incentive to create. And sure, it would be a crime if you left behind a perfect replica that you had created. Because it wasn't made by Ferrari, by law it still wouldn't be a Ferrari. Just as the copies not made by the copyright holders of ebooks or music are not legal copies (with some fair use exceptions).
And by your logic, if I take your car without your permission, drive it around, put enough gas in it after I return it -- that would be ok? After all, I have returned it to you in the exact same condition.
Anyway, this has been discussed ad nauseam many times in other threads. I can't stop you, maybe the law will, sooner or later.