Originally posted by: mindcycle
I guess you didn't even know what you were arguing then. Seems consistent with your other posts here.
Uh, no, my argument is clear, piracy is theft and it does not need to involve physical property in order to qualify as theft under US law. That's consistent with every comment I've made, particularly the ones quoted here.
Originally posted by: chizow
you still don't seem to understand piracy is a crime regardless of whether or not you think its copyright infringement or stealing.
Which was a reply that came after I said this..
I'm not arguing that copyright infringement isn't a crime, i'm simply pointing out that there is a distinction between copying bytes of data and stealing a physical product of some sort.
Which again goes back to the fundamental point of the argument and a point you still don't seem to understand:
theft does not need to involve a physical product in order to be considered theft according to US law. Again, just shows how important it is for pro-piracy/anti-DRM lobbyists to make this distinction in their own minds, as stealing is considered wrong, while "copying bytes of data" is somehow justified.
Anyway it goes, it's a worthless argument. Copyright infringement is wrong. We can both agree on that can we not? We probably misinterpreted each other at some point, so i'm just gonna leave it alone at this point.
Of course its wrong, copyright infringment is theft.
You are right about one thing though, I fell into your trolling again when I said I wasn't going to. Oh well, at least I got a few laughs out of it, so thanks for that.
Yep it was worth a good laugh, another prime demonstration of the extent you're willing to embarass yourself in defense of piracy. One final laugher, do you consider piracy/copyright infringement as theft, or not? :laugh: