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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Sharpness in expression is just the point. "Copyright violation" has lost its edge
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I am sorry if it doesn't serve your agenda as well, it's still the expression that's routinely used by professionals, law makers and, in fact, common terminology (or should be, at the very least). I see no reason to use anything else.
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since nowadays many tend to think that copying an author's work without his or her consent is fine
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Are you seriously arguing that's because we're not calling it
theft?
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So, lacking a more suitable expression ...
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Ah, but we don't, see? We got a perfectly suitable expression.
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If you can coin a new phrase, that accurately expresses that such copying is harming the authors and that it is wrong, be my guest.
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I quite like the example of "mind rape" somebody came up with a little earlier... Kidding.