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Absolutely correct. If I can piggyback to elaborate: Piracy is *not* theft, it’s ‘copyright infringement’—they had to define a legal term because the courts det
by polartx 4y ago
Absolutely correct. If I can piggyback to elaborate:
Piracy is *not* theft, it’s ‘copyright infringement’—they had to define a legal term because the courts determined that copying content does not deprive the IP owner of whatever-it-was-that-was-copied.
And assuming OPs product has some productivity or business uses, many pirate users are simply b2b sales in embryo. As a college student I may have pirated software to help get an assignment done, (AV editing, or something), which later in my career I advocated to my business unit leader that we should buy, and I could demonstrate it too!