POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Copying isn't theft : Re: Copying isn't theft Server Time
29 Sep 2024 19:23:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Copying isn't theft  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 15 May 2009 15:33:13
Message: <4a0dc379$1@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 15 May 2009 13:20:26 -0600, somebody wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:4a0dafef$1@news.povray.org...
>> On Fri, 15 May 2009 13:49:48 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 15 May 2009 11:33:39 -0600, somebody wrote:
>> >
>> >> you took away whatever was granted to me in that copyright (i.e. my
>> >> say about the conditions of copying of my work).
>> >
>> > That's called "infringement", not "theft".
>>
>> And your right wasn't taken away, otherwise you wouldn't be able to sue
>> the infringer for infringement, since you'd no longer have that right.
> 
> So it's not theft when someone takes my car without my permission
> because I can get it back if he is apprehended, as my ownership wasn't
> really taken away?

I've explained the difference several times, and will not explain it 
again.  You can go back and reread what I've written previously.

Jim


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