Posted by Anonymous on 09/14/05 06:56

"Don M." <newsreader@nospam4fineartsnospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Karrde" <karrde_smuggler_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> "anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message
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>> > Karrde wrote:
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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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>> If something is the "moral equivalent" to stealing, why would it not BE
>> stealing?
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> You may be right. Greed is the moral equivalent to stealing, so perhaps
> the entertainment
> industry IS stealing.

I can think of many times that I have felt "ripped off" after leaving the
theater. What file sharing does is put pressure on the movie industry to
actually make *gasp*..........good movies. Movies that are woth the price
of admission.

>OTOH, copyright infringement is neither the moral nor the legal
> equivalent to stealing.

true.

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> Don
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