On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 17:23 -0800, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:57 -0800, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>>>> Lee Revell:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:08 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>>>>>> Who is talking about not paying?
>>>>>
>>>>> This whole discussion was ignited when someone advocated pirating (or
>>>>> stealing, or whatever) commercial software.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why don't you want to distinct between copyright violation (which is
>>>> a gray area, different from country to country) and stealing?
>>>>
>>>
>>> First, because I personally do consider it stealing, and second,
>>>
>>
>> But why do you consider it stealing?
>>
>
> Because you are taking someone's property without paying them for it.
Lets see, taking property. By property, I guess you mean the intellectual
property, but isn't what they do exactly, is to copy the intellectual
property, not taking it? Because you still have it, perhaps unless someone
else claims to be the creator. Well, its just a definition, but I can't
agree its stealing.
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