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Where did he say pirating anything was okay?

• chimi 14y ago
  It is funny how if it's copying a developers HTML5 game, it's stealing, but if it's a movie or song, well... that's just copying, because the creator still has a copy -- that's not stealing. The level of hypocrisy around here is incredible. The only occurrence of the text string "not stealing" in this whole tread is in my post right here.
  • lindenr 14y ago
    You didn't answer the question. No-one ever said pirating was okay (or "not stealing"). Also, I think you're wrong: pirating a movie/book/whatever will at most result in the price of one movie/book being lost from the creators (given that I may or may not have bought it legally otherwise). Copying an app, on the other hand, can result in a (theoretically) unlimited number of apps being purchased where the money doesn't go to the original creators. That is more like ripping a dvd and posting it to a torrent site. I'm not saying pirating is defensible, but downloading something illegally is far less harmful than copying someone's app.
    • simonbrown 14y ago
      What about posting movies/books/whatever to trackers in the first place?
  • betterth 14y ago
    Comparing theft of a product with the intent of resale to theft of a product with the intent of personal consumption is disingenuous. Stealing something to resell it for a profit is rightly a much worse transgression than stealing it for personal use, as you're only denying a single potential sale (your own) as opposed to actually stealing multiple REAL sales and keeping all the profit.
    • chimi 14y ago
      "... than stealing it for personal use ..." As long as both instances are stealing, I have no problem. Relative badness is another debate, but I doubt we'd disagree much on that.
      • Dylan16807 14y ago
        It's not hard to argue that only the one that involves money is theft. Not that that argument is exactly where I would stand, but I think you're on shaky ground to call them the same crime with the difference being magnitude.
  • lelandbatey 14y ago
    Plagiarism, where you take another's ideas or work and pass them off as your own is a different act than stealing (or copying) something for your own enjoyment. Neither are acceptable, either morally or legally, but there is a difference between the two. As well, you are acting as though this thread of conversation is trying to justify one while demonizing the other. No one has made any kind of statement at all justifying copyright infringement. I don't understand your accusation in the context of this thread.