Zolgar: Oh and the "Pirating isn't the same as stealing something physical." yeah, it is.
I'm not going to get too involved in this as it's just beating a dead horse. But when I see the short sighted masses spew their rather weak arguments and try to throw in a "piracy = stealing" it just pisses me right off. I've posted this before and I'm going to post this again because this whole stupid idea of piracy = stealing is false:
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(1985)]Dowling v. the United States (1985)[/url]
This important bit is here for those who fail at reading comprehension:
From Justice Blackmun's majority opinion:
The phonorecords in question were not "stolen, converted or taken by fraud" for purposes of section 2314. The section's language clearly contemplates a physical identity between the items unlawfully obtained and those eventually transported, and hence some prior physical taking of the subject goods. Since the statutorily defined property rights of a copyright holder have a character distinct from the possessory interest of the owner of simple "goods, wares, (or) merchandise," interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The infringer of a copyright does not assume physical control over the copyright nor wholly deprive its owner of its use. Infringement implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft,
conversion, or fraud.
I hate the fucking quote system on this site... I wish they'd fix it :/