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Re: Your argument lacks merit. Palatine Send a noteboard - 20/01/2011 03:40:20 PM
But it is not stealing. It is copyright infringement. When you do steal something, it is lost for the owner. In this case, the owner still has the object in question, and the crime is instead a perceived loss of revenue, which may or may not be true; I have yet to see an investigation which does not smack of bias either way. But to call it stealing is a gross oversimplification, and does in many ways show you to be either uninformed, or a witch-hunter.


I think the difference between theft and copyright infringement is a fine line, but in terms of the law, fine lines often make all the difference. Perhaps I am uninformed--I don't claim any in-depth knowledge of the subject. However, I don't understand the witch-hunter part.
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