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Originally Posted by gideongallery
because quite simply piracy is not theft.
when you take a tv out of a store, the store loses possession of the tv
when i make a copy and give it to some one else the original is still in possession of the original owner
that the point, the fundamental difference, copyright infringement is a FRAUD (claiming you have using rights when you do not) not theft.
The only reason copyright lobbies are like the RIAA are trying to reclassify it as theft is because they want to ignore fair use (the copyright granted right to use the content )
They want to argue that if you don't have permission from the copyright holder you never have permission at all, which is absolutely not true, all fair use is authorized even if the copyright holder doesn't want it to be.
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Completely true but issue is all this fair us is ending up as piracy if you just showed to some friends who didn't pay although producer might not like it , it doesn't do much damage but as soon as you lend to anyone they will make a copy and uplaod it, plus when you take the tv out of store the reason it is stealing is the store owners loses profit and gets damaged by the loss of tv it is same for a piece of content the producer will face damage!
And we as a company never go after people who lend each other DVD but we go after people who either sell your content to someone else or make it available for free on the net for millions to download!