"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> > somebody wrote:
> >> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
> >> news:4a0cb7e8@news.povray.org...
> >>
> >>> What does the copyright holder own,
> >> Copyright.
> >>
> >>> as a possession, that I'm taking away
> >>> when I copy a CD?
> >> You are taking away his right to control (of how / by who / under what
> >> conditions... etc) his work can be copied. That is, you are taking away
> >> *whatever priviledges* were granted to him *in* the copyright.
> >
> > So if I copy a CD, I take away his right to control how his work can be
> > copied, and then everyone can start copying, because he doesn't have the
> > right to control it anymore? What the hell?
>
> And of course, since you've taken that right to control away, he can't
come
> after you legally for making copies, because he doesn't control it any
more.
> Yes?

Still going after a red herring I see. It's not the right that's stolen,
it's what that right grants the holder.

Same with "material" things. If I steal a car, I'm not stealing the
ownership. For if I could steal ownership by simply stealing a car, I could
go register the car and drive it legally. It doesn't work that way, nobody
claims copyright works that way either.

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