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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
by 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 agoThat'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?