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Posted by anthonyberet on 09/17/05 11:01
khobar wrote:
> "anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message
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>>khobar wrote:
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>>>"anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message
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>>>>Karrde wrote:
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>>>>>"Anonymous" <none> wrote in message
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>>>>>>"B-Hate-Me" <BHateMe@home> wrote in message
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>>>>>>>"Nate" <thejedi@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>Does any one have a copy of the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith movie
>>>>>>>>without a counter display? Every copy i've downloaded so far is just
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>>>the
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>>>>>>>>same file with a different name and it has something like:
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>>>>>>>You realize that you've just admitted to committing a felony
>>>>>>>on a global newsgroup......Right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>copyright infringement is not a felony. you can be sued, but it is
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> not
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>>>>>>illegal.
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>>>>>Just because it's not a felony doesn't mean it's not illegal. At the
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>>>very
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>>>>>least, it's a shitty thing to do. I've heard all of the attempts to
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>>>justify
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>>>>>it, but it's still stealing.
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>>>>OH, FFS! - When is this old chestnut going to be put to bed?
>>>>- It is *not* stealing. The legal definition of stealing is quite
>>>>specific, and does not apply to copyright infringement.
>>>>You may personally think it is morally equivalent to stealing, but it is
>>>>quite untrue to say it *is* stealing.
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>>>
>>>Please post the legal definition of stealing.
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>>In which jurisdiction?
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> Whichever one you were referring to when you said the "legal definition of
> stealing is quite
> specific, and does not apply to copyright infringement."
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Sorry, I was being sarky ;-)
Obviously the defs are quite long, but Wikipedia boils it down to:
'In the common law, theft is usually defined as the unauthorised taking
or use of someone else's property with the intent to permanently deprive
the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its
use.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft
Consider this as well: if copyright infringement were legally definable
as theft, why don't the RIAA etc charge their victims with theft,
instead of threatening to sue them for copyright infringement?
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