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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 668966, member: 4381&quot;]There is a big difference.&nbsp; Copyright violation isn&#039;t theft.&nbsp; It is not theft legaly, or morally.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of theft, someone&#039;s item is deprived of them because it is taken from them and they suffer a loss of the item.&nbsp; It is a part of nature and security in your property is a natural right as well as guaranteed in the constitution. In fact, security in property is a primary basis for government.&nbsp; Copyright violation is a legal <b>privilege</b>...period.&nbsp; There is no other factual way to describe it.&nbsp; Copying is an essential part of human existence.&nbsp; It is essential for the transmission of human culture and for education.&nbsp; The <b>KEY COMPONENT</b> of human civilization is copying, memorizing and reusing.&nbsp; You can&#039;t transmit ideas to another without copying them.&nbsp; The privilege of&nbsp; copyright is a system of reward for making additional works public.&nbsp; It is questionable whether it is successful or works.&nbsp; It&#039;s based on a 19th Century understanding of technology and is rightfully slowly dieing.&nbsp; All copyright is a throttle on human development and education and is therefor a limited privileged.&nbsp; So asking if copying is stealing is inherently a falsehood.&nbsp; <span style="color: Red">It is certainly never stealing. </span> There might be other moral or legal questions to pose, but it is not theft.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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