On Fri, 15 May 2009 12:19:29 -0400, clipka wrote:

> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> >> Say I go to the store and buy a book whose copyright is owned by
>> >> Fred. I then take that book home and make a copy. What does Fred own
>> >> that I stole?
>> >
>> > His privilege to decide who is entitled to make copies and who isn't.
>>
>> I didn't steal his privilege. He still owns that privilege and he can
>> still sell that privilege to other people.
> 
> If his decisions are moot because they aren't respected, instead of the
> privilege to make said decisions he now holds a worthless piece of shit.
> 
> So you *did* take away that privilege from him.

No, you just infringed his right to do so.  Infringement is legally not 
the same as theft.

Jim

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