All property is physical, true, but how can you claim that anything is truly intangible?
Anytime someone thinks, a series of tangible neurons are fired off in the brain, and connections are made/crossed/broken/etc. Therefore you can argue that thoughts are tangible.
Anytime anything is written in any format, via paper, computer, typewriter, etc., it creates physical property. Be it electronically stored or mechanically stored, its still out there in the real world.
Intellectual property is when something is written into existence by someone who thought it up themselves. Say you're in a group of 4 people and you're the only one doing any work, but everyone else copies your work and makes A's off of your back, then goes on into the world to make total incompetent fools of themselves. They've taken your intellectual property and fronted it as their own, getting credit for your work. In the case of a class that uses a bell curve to curve grades, they've also reduced the value of your work by bringing it closer to the mean grade of the class as a whole.
Copyright IS the right to copy. Notice, anyone who holds copyrights has the right to copy whatever they hold copyrights to. Only in the case of no one being designated as having the exclusive copyright is everyone allowed to copy.
This entire tangent thread describing intellectual property as an intangible thing that should be freely shared between everyone is silliness. It sounds like a bunch of kids trying to justify taking things that aren't theirs. Yes, I've taken things that aren't mine before, but I'll tell you right now that it's stealing. Downloading things that are meant to be bought, for free, is stealing unless you have a legitimate license. You can justify it all you want by saying that you just do it to test, and that you buy after you know you want it, but it's STILL stealing. There is a marketing department out there who went through a lot of work to make that product seem like the most amazing thing ever after the devs gave them the product and the "oh shit...this sucks" thought went through their minds.
It IS illegal to download games, even crap games. It is NOT illegal to make a shitty game sound awesome. Therefore, you cannot say you are not doing something illegal when you download a game, no matter how crappy it is and/or how much it was built up in marketing.
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All property is physical, true, but how can you claim that anything is truly intangible?
Anytime someone thinks, a series of tangible neurons are fired off in the brain, and connections are made/crossed/broken/etc. Therefore you can argue that thoughts are tangible.
Anytime anything is written in any format, via paper, computer, typewriter, etc., it creates physical property. Be it electronically stored or mechanically stored, its still out there in the real world.
Intellectual property is when something is written into existence by someone who thought it up themselves. Say you're in a group of 4 people and you're the only one doing any work, but everyone else copies your work and makes A's off of your back, then goes on into the world to make total incompetent fools of themselves. They've taken your intellectual property and fronted it as their own, getting credit for your work. In the case of a class that uses a bell curve to curve grades, they've also reduced the value of your work by bringing it closer to the mean grade of the class as a whole.
Copyright IS the right to copy. Notice, anyone who holds copyrights has the right to copy whatever they hold copyrights to. Only in the case of no one being designated as having the exclusive copyright is everyone allowed to copy.
This entire tangent thread describing intellectual property as an intangible thing that should be freely shared between everyone is silliness. It sounds like a bunch of kids trying to justify taking things that aren't theirs. Yes, I've taken things that aren't mine before, but I'll tell you right now that it's stealing. Downloading things that are meant to be bought, for free, is stealing unless you have a legitimate license. You can justify it all you want by saying that you just do it to test, and that you buy after you know you want it, but it's STILL stealing. There is a marketing department out there who went through a lot of work to make that product seem like the most amazing thing ever after the devs gave them the product and the "oh shit...this sucks" thought went through their minds.
It IS illegal to download games, even crap games. It is NOT illegal to make a shitty game sound awesome. Therefore, you cannot say you are not doing something illegal when you download a game, no matter how crappy it is and/or how much it was built up in marketing.