9 Feb
2013
9 Feb
'13
6:01 a.m.
On 02/08/2013 05:22 AM, drew Roberts wrote:
On Friday 08 February 2013 02:38:45 david wrote:
Not good examples to choose. If they sneak onto the field and play ball
and while doing so break the water fountain, it's called vandalism but
is really (underneath it) stealing the use of the water fountain from
both the owner of the field AND anyone else who wants to use it afterward.
But software and hard things like baseball diamonds are too different to
be good analogies.
Using something without agreeing to the terms
(licence) under which the
provider of that something offers it is theft.
Of course it is not theft. It may or may not be illegal, but it is not theft.
If a group of kids sneak onto a field and play a ball game without the
owner's permission, even when the terms of use of the field are posted, they
do not get charged with theft. Why must everything be theft, piracy, rape, treason,
etc. Loaded words. Call
things what they are.
You're the one who added "piracy, rape, treason". Why? None of them are
synonymous with copyright.
I consider it theft because it's stealing from the licenser/creator the
ability to control the use and distribution of their creation. If you
don't like the terms that the creator makes their creation available to
people, *go use a creation whose terms you agree with*.
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