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Piracy is when it is the little guy stealing from the big guy... and that is ok. This is the big guy stealing from the little guy... and that is bad, mkay? lol

• sophacles 14y ago
  No it isn't that at all: Piracy: "here is a free copy of the avengers" Plagarism: "here, I made you a movie, I call it the avengers" One about replicas, one is about credit. There is a difference. Quit being disingenuous about them being the same.
  • jack-r-abbit 14y ago
    I don't think they are the same and I don't think I claimed they were. Clearly the words have different definitions and apply to different actions. One takes the work of the creator and passes it along to others without the creator getting [paid|credit|traffic|whatever creator desires] for it. The other takes the work of the creator and passes it along as their own work without the creator getting [paid|credit|traffic|whatever creator desires] for it. I was trying (with humor) to explain why some people will defend piracy and then rail against plagiarism. They do have a common thread in kind of screwing the content creator a little... but in different ways. And often in a "Big Guy vs Little Guy" scenario, people will take the side of Little Guy... regardless of who took which action. Also... kind of funny to see the difference in the meaning of plagiarism among those outraged by this plagiarism. It seems that even among those that are angry here, there is a disagreement over whether plagiarism is or is not simply about giving credit. Some seem to think that it is an issue of credit or proper use of quotes... while others seem to think that even with proper credit given plagiarism still exists. So maybe plagiarism isn't so easy to define/avoid? Not sure.