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Originally Posted by Maggy J
If you steal one of my paintings it is still theft whether it is in digital or physical form I will still chase you through every avenue open to me and you can hide behind as much semantics as you like..eventually I will get what is due to me.
If folk are not prepared to see this then you will get the situation we have here where actions that restrict the freedom of the internet are instigated. by those who are having their intellectual product stolen,copied and used without permission.
What is needed is for everyone to respect that artists have a right to make money from their product and no one in the world has the right not to PAY them for that product.
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All the products in question i.e films ,music etc are intended for public consumption .The owners of such property give people rights to that product in exchange for money so the semantics are very important ,it is not theft ,it cannot be theft ,it may be ,under certain circumstances copyright infringement ,but definately not theft .The distinction is important and the very reason why we have copyright laws