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Negatory, chief. The legal term “copyright infringement” was created precisely because bootlegging media could not meet the criteria for theft, (ie a pirate is

Negatory, chief. The legal term “copyright infringement” was created precisely because bootlegging media could not meet the criteria for theft, (ie a pirate is not depriving someone else possession or ownership of the media that they copy). It all started with a man that was selling copied cassette tapes of an Elvis Presley concert through an ad in the back of a magazine.

nojito 4y ago
Your getting content you didn’t pay for.
- alexvoda 4y ago
  No matter how many times you want to call it theft, copyright infringement is simply not the same thing.
  - nojito 4y ago
    It isn’t for the initial copier but the consumer is certainly consuming content they did not pay for.