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Originally Posted by HansTWN
I was arguing that Kenny believes that using the word theft might help to change that cavalier attitude toward copyright infringement.
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I'm pretty sure there were people calling it theft 10-13 years ago too, Harlan Ellilson certainly was. Didn't seem to make much difference. I don't think what you call it has anything to do with the reasons (the majority of) people don't care.
The publishers ignored the demand for digital content that long that alternative distribution networks grew around it. They essentially (with a few notable exceptions) turned a blind eye to it, which gave a lot of people the green light. See the Dan Didio comment I posted a few days ago for an example.
Now that they want to sell digital content themselves, they need some way to move people away from what they have got used to for the last 10 years or so. Calling them thieves isn't likely to do that. Nor is providing a product that is inferior to what people are currently getting for free.