You know, if it were theft, I think the cases would be tried as cases of theft. I love a semantic argument as much as the next guy, but I find I'm most successf

You know, if it were theft, I think the cases would be tried as cases of theft. I love a semantic argument as much as the next guy, but I find I'm most successful in those arguments when I avidly defer to time-proven definitions. And when those definitions have been so thoroughly debated that they have been intrenched in law almost universally consistent across multiple nations and languages, I really defer to those. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#Comparison_to_theft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#Comparis... I hope you take the opportunity at some point in your life to revisit your opinion on this issue.