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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1759004, member: 75105&quot;]<span style="color: #333333"><font face="Georgia"><span style="font-size: 14px"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="color: #000000">But according to Stuart P. Green, a Rutgers Law School professor and expert on theft law, copyright infringement isn’t really “stealing” at all.</span></font></span></font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 14px"><font face="Helvetica">The crux of Green’s argument — which mimics that of many who have discussed this issue with any amount of critical thinking in the past — is that, in order to actually “steal” something, you must deprive the owner of whatever that thing is. If you take my bicycle, then you have it, and I don’t. But if you download a song off The Pirate Bay, you’ve simply made a copy — now there are two bicycles. (Or thousands or millions.)</font></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 14px"><font face="Helvetica">Read more: <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/illegal-file-sharing-isnt-stealing-heres-why/#ixzz2aT2Vt2r1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/illegal-file-sharing-isnt-stealing-heres-why/#ixzz2aT2Vt2r1" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #003399"><font face="inherit">http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/illegal-file-sharing-isnt-stealing-heres-why/#ixzz2aT2Vt2r1</font></span></a> </font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 14px"><font face="Helvetica">Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=a4WNn6KVyr4yHaacwqm_6r&amp;u=digitaltrends" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=a4WNn6KVyr4yHaacwqm_6r&amp;u=digitaltrends" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: inherit"><font face="inherit">@digitaltrends on Twitter</font></span></a> | <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=a4WNn6KVyr4yHaacwqm_6r&amp;u=digitaltrendsftw" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=a4WNn6KVyr4yHaacwqm_6r&amp;u=digitaltrendsftw" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: inherit"><font face="inherit">digitaltrendsftw on Facebook</font></span></a></font></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m sure most of you taped songs off the radio onto a cassette as a kid. That&#039;s not really legally kosher either...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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