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RIAA offers amnesty for music pirates.

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flap:
The reason it isn't stealing is simply because the owner isn't deprived of what's been 'taken'. The reason why stealing is a problem for the victim is because when they have something stolen they cease to posess it. It's not the fact that the thief now posesses it that bothers them, but simply the fact that they don't have the item anymore. You can't compare copying to stealing because with duplication the owner (in this case the copyright owner) still has the original.

Actually I would approve of the RIAA continuing to use the word "stealing" because it's so easy to ridicule this argument.

Laukev7:
Isn't 'piracy' a more appropriate term than 'stealing'?

flap:
Well considering 'piracy' refers to the act of attacking + looting a ship, I think that's a lot worse than calling it 'stealing'. You may as well call it 'arson' as call it piracy.

Calum:
it's just home taping, but with your computer instead of tapes.

here's seven pages of whether it's stealing or not from last month.

and here's some more of the same

just search in the lounge for riaa if you have a couple of hours to waste on this subject.

Faust:
No one mentioned the obvious one:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#TOCPiracy

There we go all better.  

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