Posted by Mike O'Sullivan on 01/03/06 18:37

Roy L. Fuchs wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:08:20 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) Gave us:
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>>On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:14:30 -0500, "Margrave of Brandenburg"
>><lhorwinkle@usa.com> wrote:
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>>>>>Stealing is stealing, end of discussion. If you condone it then you have
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>>>>no recompense when it happens to you.
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>>>>Except that copyright infringement is NOT stealing. Sorry.
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>>>Then what IS it?
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>>Copyright infringement.
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>
> Yes. ILLEGAL. as in breaking the law. As in THEFT.
>
> Theft of IP.

"Theft" is defined as permanently depriving someone of property.
Pedantic, as I said before, but in no way can taking a digital clone be
defined thus. Not, of course, to defend the practice of copyright
infringement.

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