Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 01/03/06 21:44

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:37:32 +0000, Mike O'Sullivan <mike@nowhere.com>
Gave us:

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


Copyright infringement IS theft. Theft of someone else's IP.

If I cloned someone's race horse, I am sure he would consider me as
having stolen something from him.

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