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- From: mabac@lysator.liu.se (Mattias Back`n)
- Subject: Re: PIRACY
- Message-ID: <1982@lysator.liu.se>
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- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:54:01 GMT
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- rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy) writes:
-
- >marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
-
- >Piracy _is not_ theft. I will concede that piracy may be morally and
- >legally _wrong_, but it is _not_ theft. Theft, by definition, implies
- >depriving a person of his physical property, and anticipated profits _are
- >not physical property_. They cannot be quantified with any degree of
- >certitude. The ONLY way I could ever buy this argument would be if the
- >program had to be re-written each time a copy was sold, in which case I
- >would have to agree it was quite similar. However, data can be
- >reproduced over and over at almost no additional cost, so the comparison
- >of real world, hand tooled goods is innacurate.
-
- I'd rather define piracy as forgery than theft. It's true that you
- doesn't take any physical property from the author, but you make an
- exact replica (at least very close to) of the original and some
- go even further and spread/sell replicas to others. I see a strong
- similarity with art-forgery here, and _that_ is certainly illegal
- even if the paintings aren't sold. ( Artists making replicas of
- paintings aren't allowed to make them in the original size you
- know..)
- It could also be compared with forgering money, afterall money
- isn't worth anything until you use it and that goes for pirated
- software also - it's worth something when you sell it.
-
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- Mattias Backen mabac@Lysator.LiU.Se
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