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It is still theft no matter how many flowery words you try to use and how you try to justify it.

• CopyrightTroll 16y ago
  It is not theft or subtraction, it is piracy. There was no loss when bits are copied, but because the downloader has no rights to the media, it is piracy. There was no lost sales because the fact remains: the user wants a copy of the media or content without paying. To suggest that they would pay in some alternate universe is fantasy.
• sorbus 16y ago
  Your last three comments consist of you claiming that piracy is theft. Either you actually think that repeating a belief will make people agree with you, or you're trolling. Either way, please come up with a better argument (each of these three comments has at least one person debunking it, using the standard "theft deprives a person of an object, piracy does not" argument, which I have yet to see successfully disproved).
  • Tycho 16y ago
    That's easy to disprove. Property is not an object but a right of disposal. If you steal someone's car, you have deprived them of their property because they can no longer dispose of their car how they wish. If you steal somebody's movie, you have deprived them of their property because they can no longer dispose of their movie how they wish (ie. control its distribution). They can still watch the movie, but their property has still been infringed. You may say that's a semantic argument, but then frankly so is this whole 'piracy isn't theft' thing.
    • dlsspy 16y ago
      ...and if the publisher decides to effect new control over the DVDs I've already purchased? Is it theft that I do not return them?