Why I Steal Movies (Even Ones I'm In)

Jamie found a link saying "Like a billion other people, I download things illegally. I'm also an actor, writer, and director whose income depends on revenue from DVDs, movies, and books.This leads to many conflicts in my head, in my heart, and in bars."

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Steal????

[DrLov3]

To steal is to deprive someone of something.
Making a copy != stealing as the person still has the physical DVD. Stop this propaganda for the MPAA, use the right words : "Made a copy of" instead of : "stealing"

Then why are you spreading MPAA FUD?

[Hurricane78]

You can not steal a movie. That’s as absurd a thing to say, as “I shovel wrinklyness”. It’s a physically impossible thing to do.

Stealing means taking away something that someone owns. Making copies is not taking away. And in fact you can’t even take it away from who has it. You also can’t own information in the first place. Since ownership is defined as something you control. And with information, you can only either not prove that it exists at all, or you pass it on, and thereby lose control over it. It’s not avoidable.
Those are the laws of information. Everything else is deliberate FUD.

Man, how much brainwashing did it take you, to actually believe that information is a physical object? I see this again, and again, from people who are supposed to fight the bullshit. It’s a sad sight. It feels as if they had won already.
(Obviously they haven’t. And also, I know for a fact, that they themselves think that they already lost. :)