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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Copyright infringement is stealing. Infringement means accessing something you do not have the right or permission to access. Trying to parallel that to jaywalking and murder is ludicrous unless you were going for comparing the severity of the offense.
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Copyright infringement is copyright infringement, nothing more, nothing less. You really don't do yourself any favours by pretending otherwise. An infringement would occur when someone uploaded content without permission of the copyright holder. The copyright holder could then take the uploader to court in order to receive damages payment from them. But more likely they will just file a DMCA notice and have the content removed from the internet.
As to loss of income, entertainment industry funded research shows that internet piracy is resonsible for a
loss of profits. Meanwhile independently funded research shows that internet piracy is responsible for an
increase in profits.
Can you guess which of those two studies was recently debunked as being untrue by the US government?