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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
We've been over this before. Legally, illegal copying is not theft. Socially, it is not considered to be equivalent (witness the provision of blank media and equipment to facilitate various forms of copying, and the fact that most people do it). Morally, it depends on what your morals are.
I can only make sense of what your saying as either an assertion that they are in fact legally the same, or that people tend to view them as the same, or simply that you feel the same way about them.
If you find, say, the theft of CDs from a shop and the copying of a CD to give to a friend, equally repugnant, fair enough. It strikes me as an unusual point of view, but it's all that I can think you mean.
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Yes, we have been over it and we'll probably go over it again from what I've seen. And yes I see taking someone's physical property the same level and type of criminal activity as taking their intellectual property and I will continue to state that until the law and society catches up.
