On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:26:56 +0200, Manuel Viet wrote:
>Le vendredi 21 Juillet 2006 21:08, keith_w a écrit :
>> Why call them a cutesy name like "pirates?" Call them thieves. That's what
>> a so-called pirate is.
Amen!
>No. That's not technicaly correct. Thieves take away a possession. You can't
>use it anymore once it's been stolen. Unlawful copies, on the other hand,
>don't deprive the copyright holder of his property, because he can still
>claim ownership, and act as a master.
There's more than one type of thief. Ultimately, a thief is someone who takes
something (anything) without permission or authority to do so. The simple
version: If it isn't yours, don't take it. This isn't
rocket science.
>That's why intellectual property is a State temporary privilege, it's not like
>the property of a 'real' thing. In the copy process the owner still has the
>use of the copied thing.
Spoken like someone who never created anything in his life.
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