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STRAG3S THE UNTHINKABLES
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Posted - 2011.09.28 01:01:00 -
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Pr1ncess Alia wrote:Jhagiti Tyran wrote:Doesn't matter what you believe because the law says its theft, anyone doing it is therefore a thief. You cannot pick and choose which laws you choose you think is right, good luck spouting to the judge that it isn't theft so you plead not guilty. I was being nice before. Look at the bolded part. This is what you don't seem to understand. I'm guilty of copyright infringement, not theft. The fact you can't differentiate between these two is a terrible terrible face palm. Until you get that basic concept through your head, your going to continue looking like the village idiot. No one stole a car, a more apt analogy would be you obtained plans for the car and built your own without permission. No one walked into a restaurant and ordered food without paying, instead someone obtained the recipe and cooked their own version at home. Get it now? It's a violation of intellectual property, not a theft of physical property. There is no physical property involved in copyright infringement. Were your mother and father close relatives before they married?
Perhaps we should have a look at the commonly accepted usage is of this word:
Dictionary.com wrote: Theft: noun 1. the act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another; larceny. 2. an instance of this. 3. Archaic . something stolen.
Steal: noun verb (used with object) 1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch. 2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment. 3. to take, get, or win insidiously, surreptitiously, subtly, or by chance: He stole my girlfriend. 4. to move, bring, convey, or put secretly or quietly; smuggle (usually followed by away, from, in, into, etc.): They stole the bicycle into the bedroom to surprise the child. 5. Baseball . (of a base runner) to gain (a base) without the help of a walk or batted ball, as by running to it during the delivery of a pitch.
Theft is the act of stealing. Stealing can be used to refer to the appropriation of ideas without right. Clearly, by the accepted meanings of these words, pirating a video game can be referred to as a form of theft.
It's understandable for you to have your own personal definitions for words, but it is obnoxious to try to force your definitions down other people's throats when your definitions differ from those used by the rest of society. Knock it off. |