Nope, they are no more the retailer than the classified section of a newspaper
Perhaps a better analogy would be a consignment store. When you sell stuff on consignment, the liability might be different, depending on the terms of the consignment agreement. How much do you want to bet that there's a "you agree to hold Linden Labs, its' assignees, blah blah blah harmless and indemnify them for any and all claims and damages" in the agreement?
LL should put up a splash screen saying "This is not the U.S. Its laws do not apply here, motherfucker". Then again, most Americans wouldn't understand it, and everyone else already knows.
They'd need to move the servers to another country to be able to do that...
I notice you don't dispute the accuracy of any of the original posters' statements
He didn't make any statements worth responding to.
But you DID respond to them - with ad hominems, rather than ignoring the content. Then again, since god is mathematically impossible in this particular universe, only those who are willing to be deceived need be concerned...
Then again, since atheism is the fastest-growing belief system, it'll become irrelevant sometime this century.
Man does not need God.
God does not need religion.
Religion does not need churches.
Man... I'm just about the least religious person you'll ever run into... and I despise organized religion in all it's many forms. Yet even I agree that your comments should be moded "troll" or "flamebait". You are accusing almost 80%+ of the human race of being evil, and suggesting that terrorism is equivalent to proselytizing. Either you're being willfully insulting, or you're just plain stupid.
I notice you don't dispute the accuracy of any of the original posters' statements. Why should it be marked either troll or flamebait when it's 100% accurate? As for your" accusing almost 80%+ of the human race of being evil", why assume bad will when stupidity will suffice?
Religion IS stupid. Most religions accuse other religions of being false - atheists take this to its' logical conclusion. Group A says group B is a false religion - we agree with Group A. Group B says Group A is a false religion - we also agree with Group B. It's obvious that religion doesn't have any sort of "insight" into the truth, otherwise they would be able to prove their claims, instead of saying "trust me!"
Dear god man.. its not really that degraded of living outside of the USA is it??
I mean... in America, hot water is cold water that's heated up in a hot water tank by your house, or in an instant-on electric or natural gas line heater.
In America, you can drink hot water just as well as cool since it's from the same source.
It's not at all degrading living outside the USA. Canada... we're bigger than you, we're on top, so I gues if we were in jail, you'd be our beotch:-) We also haven't had any bank failures this millenium, and only 2 small regional ones in more than 80 years (and none during the Great Depression). We also never had either Bush Mk. 2 or Sarah Palin... and we didn't cause the world-wide financial meltdown with wide-spread criminal mortgage fraud, but that's another story...
Try taking water that's been sitting in a hot water tank and letting it cool down. It STILL tastes like shit in comparison to cold water that hasn't lost much of the dissolved gases in it, hasn't been sitting in a hot-water tank that has a decade's worth of sediment, etc.
Cat5e isn't as vulnerable as fiber. It takes more abuse and can be bent in a tighter radius without damaging the cable or impacting the signal quality. Crimping RJ45 on a Cat5e requires a $10 tool and any idiot with a printout of the wiring scheme can do it. Same for RJ45 sockets.
Yes, but those same idiots like to attack the cable with a stapling gun every few inches, put tight 90-degree bends in it, etc.
Water from a hot water heater gets used for drinking,
That's just gross. Everyone knows you do NOT use the water from the hot water tap for drinking, either directly, or by boiling in a kettle.
Use only cold water for drinking, cooking, and reconstituting juice, etc. (leave run for 30 seconds before filling your glass/container/cookware) Hot water for washing dishes, etc., isn't a problem. You're not drinking it, and you're more likely to ingest more lead leached from crystal glassware than from your clean dishes.
You'll laugh, but we had a related conundrum when we bought a new washer a couple of months ago. My wife wanted a super-capacity washer that would cut the number of loads we need to run by about 2/3, but I realized that we would need a bigger laundry sink if we bought one of those monsters. We ended up getting a bigger machine, but not as big as we wanted, because we didn't want to also buy a bigger sink.
Why would you need a bigger sink? Are you piping the waste water into the sink instead of directly into the waste water standpipe?
The problem with GMO crops, and more importantly, for anti-GMO people, is that they are simply better for the farmer. They can produce more for less work. Even when you take the licensing costs into account, it is more economical overall. Presumably, the anti-GMO people are against this push into new markets because it will do the same for pig farmers as it did for crop farmers. And that'll make it harder for anti-GMO people to continue their "organic" lifestyle.
... because mono-cultures are SO much better than diversity...
... because they'll never abuse their monopoly license...
... because it's easy to keep GMOs from contaminating non-GMOs (crops/animals)...
... because selective breeding is such a radical and new idea...
... because they'll never take a naturally-occurring species and slip a patent on it...
Could we ask them to develop a pig with an uncloven hoof? It would be interesting to see kosher bacon on the shelf.
It's already available. The text literally translates as "cloven hoof that trods the ground", so they raise pigs on slightly elevated wood floors - their hooves never touch the ground, so they're kosher.
This massive 100 megawatt photovoltaic installation will provide enough energy to make the Vatican the first solar powered nation state in the world!
ALL our energy sources for most of mankinds' existence have been either direct or indirectly derived from the sun. The only arguable exceptions would be nuclear (derived from the heavy elements of OTHER suns collapse and explosion) and tidal (the moon).
Look at the parity operations in more detail. The only reason parity bits are even or odd is that we are limited to 2 values - if bits could hold 4 different states, parity operations would still work, but they would result in a parity "bit" in 1 of 4 states, not just even or odd.
Even better - look up the old serial communications protocols, with parity set at even, odd, mark, space, or none. As the wiki points out, one-bit parity checks are only a special case of a crc check, wiich can use from 1 to an arbitrary number of bits.:-) The idea is that the result had better equal the expected result, hence "parity" or "the same."
In which case you might as well keep the index locally, which is not what was asked.
Don't be ridiculous - there is NO need to do that. You can recreate the value of the index key locally, and you send ONLY that tot the server, which returns one or more values that match.
If you've ever written a program that searches by the crc64 value of a text string, rather than the text string itself, you'd know that there is no need to store anything locally. I suspect the people who are whining about storing the index locally don't know what they're talking about, or there's been a serious failure of vision on their part. As long as you're looking for exact matches on the index, you don't need anything locally except the algorithm to generate the index key.
You do not buy a license when you buy a copyrighted product - you buy the product. You only need a license if you want to do something with it that copyright law doesn't already let you do. For most people this is not necessary.
Nope - you're buying the media the copyright product came on, and you have a combination of rights - those granted by copyright law, and those granted by the author by license (as per copyright law).
You do NOT get the right, even under copyright law (except by permission of the rights-holder), to make and distribute additional copies.
In the hypothetical case where there was a free seat and the theatre has no actual expenses resulting from one additional guest, there is just trespass.
A theatre isn't limited just by the number of physical seats. Other qualities such as ventilation, fire safety and acoustics also tend to be sensitive to the size of the audience. Again, in the hypothetical case where no such limitation is compromised by the trespasser there is no cost involved.
No, it's still theft of service, in addition to trespass. Your argument is akin to someone stealing donuts because "they were going to be thrown out anyway at the end of the shift, since nobody bought them." It's not a zero-sum game. Unless you have permission, you ARE stealing. Get over it.
Also, your argument completely fails in the case of cable services theft, where the incremental cost to the distributor is zero - you're still a thief.
In the case of the people stealing the game, theat they are stealing the game via the route of copyright infringement is just one of the modalities of theft, same as they could have stolen it by defrauding the vendor (fake credit card, etc), or stealing a computer with the game already on it. Stop trying to justify it by saying it's "only" copyright infringement. It's both copyright infringement AND theft. One doesn't preclude the other.
The disk might not belong to the pubisher ay more, but the content does.
No, it does not. He has certain limited exclusive rights to it but it does not in any way belong to him
Actually, the content - the particular pattern of bits - DOES belong to them - that's the only reason they're entitled to license it out. You bought a license to use those bits - you don't own them, and you have no right to copy them extant an agreement to the contrary.
The air that I breathe does not belong to me, yet I breathe it all the time and don't at all feel guilty about it. Please explain how you reconcile this with the notion that "taking something that doesn't belong to you" is necessarily unethical.
The air you breathe doesn't have an owner. If we were in a space station, or on the moon, you can be damn sure that you'd have to earn your allotment.
Also, even though the air doesn't have an owner, we still have pollution laws, so you can't just treat the "commons" like a sewer any more.
If you're "trespassing" inside a movie theatre, it's called theft of service.
And only because you are actually taking something away from the owner: one seat he could have sold to someone else. There is no such cost to the copyright holder when you make a copy of a copyrighted work.
You just made my argument for me. The only reason there's an empty seat is because they didn't sell out - so it was a "potential" sale. And yet, you argue that you have actually taken something away from the owner - one seat he could have (but didn't) sell to someone else.
Also, even if you remained standing the whole movie, you're still stealing, it's still theft of service - the law doesn't care for your position - sitting, standing, or whatever.
All the people trying to justify/rationalize stealing - what are you going to call it when someone steals your identity? "Identity infringement?" After all, you still have your identity. They didn't "really" steal it... (but they did).
When someone steals your identify you do in practice lose it since you will soon find that companies and institutions disbelieve you when you try to explain who you are.
You "in practice" lost it the same way that the game publisher "in practice" lost their money... you still have your identity, it's just worth less, same as game publishers lose financially when people steal their shit.
Anything else is hypocritical.
Then again, what can we expect from a culture that has produced the biggest crime wave ever - millions of people routinely committing fraud to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars so they can buy a pile of bricks. Fitch analysed a batch of mortgages from the housing bubble - not ONE didn't involve fraud. As a nation of individuals, millions of you did the crime, but we ALL end up "doing the time", thanks to the "I want mine, and I want it NOW" entitlement attitude.
Easy way to fix the housing bubble bust - anyone who committed mortgage fraud gets an automatic 10-year suspended sentence. They also forfeit their pile of bricks - no bail-out. The ratings agencies and banks that were complicit are nationalized, liquidated, and their shareholders and bondholders also wiped out for being complicit.
It would be cheaper than the current bail-out scheme, which just rewards the thieves and crooks.
Copyright infringement may be the crime, but the underlying act is theft.
Receiving services for which you know you have to pay, and not paying, however... that is theft because someone has been directly deprived of their time.
Bullshit - there is NO difference. How is someone "directly deprived of their time" by people blue-boxing? They're stealing phone service, and yet nobody has been directly deprived of their time. Ditto with cable TV service theft. You can't even argue the indirect costs are increased, since they're broadcasting the same signal along the wire whether you tap into it or not, so their costs haven't risen. What HAS happened is that you have taken something that doesn't belong to you, without permission.
That's theft. Or are you going to try to claim that it's really only "copyright infringement" because they weren't deprived of their copy? So if someone goes and pays for a duplicate of your drivers' license and steals your identity, it's also "not theft" because you haven't been deprived of ANYTHING? Get real.
You want something so much, beg, borrow, or buy it. Don't steal it.
If I "borrow" something from you every night after you go to sleep, without yur permission, and return it in the morning before you awake, is that not repeated theft? Even though you didn't know about it? Or are you going to argue that, as long as it was returned and you didn't know, it wasn't theft because you weren't deprived of it... in which case, I guess it's also okay by you for your spouse to cheat on you, as long as YOU don't know about it... after all, the sex they had with someone else was an intangible that you "weren't deprived of" - unless you want to have sex with whoever they were having sex with, or wanted to watch, or whatever.
The disk might not belong to the pubisher ay more, but the content does. As you yourself point out, they have a set of exclusive rights to that content, and you don't have the right to copy it. The arrangement of the bits is theirs, and you don't have the legal right to copy that arrangement.
Copying the content falls under the "taking something that doesn't belong to you" aspect of stealing. Or did your mother not teach you not to take that which doesn't belong to you without asking first?
ou are not stealing from him anymore than you would be stealing from someone by trespassing on their physical property. (Note, the latter is trespass, also not theft.)
If you're "trespassing" inside a movie theatre, it's called theft of service. The movie theatre is providing the service of showing a movie, and your trespass is so that you can steal their service (watching a movie) without paying. In other words, the law has recognized for a long time that you can steal intangibles, such as long distance service (blue boxes phone phreaking), cable tv, etc.
All the people trying to justify/rationalize stealing - what are you going to call it when someone steals your identity? "Identity infringement?" After all, you still have your identity. They didn't "really" steal it... (but they did).
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Nope, they are no more the retailer than the classified section of a newspaper
Perhaps a better analogy would be a consignment store. When you sell stuff on consignment, the liability might be different, depending on the terms of the consignment agreement. How much do you want to bet that there's a "you agree to hold Linden Labs, its' assignees, blah blah blah harmless and indemnify them for any and all claims and damages" in the agreement?
LL should put up a splash screen saying "This is not the U.S. Its laws do not apply here, motherfucker". Then again, most Americans wouldn't understand it, and everyone else already knows.
They'd need to move the servers to another country to be able to do that ...
Don't taze me, Bro!
I notice you don't dispute the accuracy of any of the original posters' statements
He didn't make any statements worth responding to.
But you DID respond to them - with ad hominems, rather than ignoring the content. Then again, since god is mathematically impossible in this particular universe, only those who are willing to be deceived need be concerned ...
Then again, since atheism is the fastest-growing belief system, it'll become irrelevant sometime this century.
Man does not need God.
God does not need religion.
Religion does not need churches.
Man ... I'm just about the least religious person you'll ever run into ... and I despise organized religion in all it's many forms. Yet even I agree that your comments should be moded "troll" or "flamebait". You are accusing almost 80%+ of the human race of being evil, and suggesting that terrorism is equivalent to proselytizing. Either you're being willfully insulting, or you're just plain stupid.
I notice you don't dispute the accuracy of any of the original posters' statements. Why should it be marked either troll or flamebait when it's 100% accurate? As for your" accusing almost 80%+ of the human race of being evil", why assume bad will when stupidity will suffice?
Religion IS stupid. Most religions accuse other religions of being false - atheists take this to its' logical conclusion. Group A says group B is a false religion - we agree with Group A. Group B says Group A is a false religion - we also agree with Group B. It's obvious that religion doesn't have any sort of "insight" into the truth, otherwise they would be able to prove their claims, instead of saying "trust me!"
Flame bait? No, just the truth.
Dear god man.. its not really that degraded of living outside of the USA is it?? I mean... in America, hot water is cold water that's heated up in a hot water tank by your house, or in an instant-on electric or natural gas line heater. In America, you can drink hot water just as well as cool since it's from the same source.
It's not at all degrading living outside the USA. Canada ... we're bigger than you, we're on top, so I gues if we were in jail, you'd be our beotch :-) We also haven't had any bank failures this millenium, and only 2 small regional ones in more than 80 years (and none during the Great Depression). We also never had either Bush Mk. 2 or Sarah Palin ... and we didn't cause the world-wide financial meltdown with wide-spread criminal mortgage fraud, but that's another story ...
Try taking water that's been sitting in a hot water tank and letting it cool down. It STILL tastes like shit in comparison to cold water that hasn't lost much of the dissolved gases in it, hasn't been sitting in a hot-water tank that has a decade's worth of sediment, etc.
Cat5e isn't as vulnerable as fiber. It takes more abuse and can be bent in a tighter radius without damaging the cable or impacting the signal quality. Crimping RJ45 on a Cat5e requires a $10 tool and any idiot with a printout of the wiring scheme can do it. Same for RJ45 sockets.
Yes, but those same idiots like to attack the cable with a stapling gun every few inches, put tight 90-degree bends in it, etc.
Water from a hot water heater gets used for drinking,
That's just gross. Everyone knows you do NOT use the water from the hot water tap for drinking, either directly, or by boiling in a kettle.
Use only cold water for drinking, cooking, and reconstituting juice, etc. (leave run for 30 seconds before filling your glass/container/cookware) Hot water for washing dishes, etc., isn't a problem. You're not drinking it, and you're more likely to ingest more lead leached from crystal glassware than from your clean dishes.
You'll laugh, but we had a related conundrum when we bought a new washer a couple of months ago. My wife wanted a super-capacity washer that would cut the number of loads we need to run by about 2/3, but I realized that we would need a bigger laundry sink if we bought one of those monsters. We ended up getting a bigger machine, but not as big as we wanted, because we didn't want to also buy a bigger sink.
Why would you need a bigger sink? Are you piping the waste water into the sink instead of directly into the waste water standpipe?
Shouldn't biotech companies be making vat grown meat by now?
Remember the sci-fi story "Chicken Little"? - vat-grown chicken - NOBODY gets a drumstick!
How about crossing a chicken with an octopus - 8 wings, no feet, great for "Wings Night".
Or cross it with a starfish. Want more - just cut 'em up and throw them back in the vat ...
The problem with GMO crops, and more importantly, for anti-GMO people, is that they are simply better for the farmer. They can produce more for less work. Even when you take the licensing costs into account, it is more economical overall. Presumably, the anti-GMO people are against this push into new markets because it will do the same for pig farmers as it did for crop farmers. And that'll make it harder for anti-GMO people to continue their "organic" lifestyle.
After all, what could possibly go wrong?
Could we ask them to develop a pig with an uncloven hoof? It would be interesting to see kosher bacon on the shelf.
It's already available. The text literally translates as "cloven hoof that trods the ground", so they raise pigs on slightly elevated wood floors - their hooves never touch the ground, so they're kosher.
Cue all the "a priest and a rabbi" jokes ...
This massive 100 megawatt photovoltaic installation will provide enough energy to make the Vatican the first solar powered nation state in the world!
ALL our energy sources for most of mankinds' existence have been either direct or indirectly derived from the sun. The only arguable exceptions would be nuclear (derived from the heavy elements of OTHER suns collapse and explosion) and tidal (the moon).
Look at the parity operations in more detail. The only reason parity bits are even or odd is that we are limited to 2 values - if bits could hold 4 different states, parity operations would still work, but they would result in a parity "bit" in 1 of 4 states, not just even or odd.
Even better - look up the old serial communications protocols, with parity set at even, odd, mark, space, or none. As the wiki points out, one-bit parity checks are only a special case of a crc check, wiich can use from 1 to an arbitrary number of bits. :-) The idea is that the result had better equal the expected result, hence "parity" or "the same."
bring greater parity between a user's movements and the animations
You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
It comes from the french word pareil, which means "same".
The whole idea of a parity bit is to make sure the data is the same.
All he really needs is a laptop with 2 internal 500 gig hard disks, so he can run them as a RAID1. In other words, a sub-$1k 17" laptop.
Benefits:
If he needs more storage space for backup or data, mount a few external hard drives, or make a cluster of laptops.
You don't search the data - you search the index.
In which case you might as well keep the index locally, which is not what was asked.
Don't be ridiculous - there is NO need to do that. You can recreate the value of the index key locally, and you send ONLY that tot the server, which returns one or more values that match.
If you've ever written a program that searches by the crc64 value of a text string, rather than the text string itself, you'd know that there is no need to store anything locally. I suspect the people who are whining about storing the index locally don't know what they're talking about, or there's been a serious failure of vision on their part. As long as you're looking for exact matches on the index, you don't need anything locally except the algorithm to generate the index key.
I want Grand Theft Auto for the Wii!
No problem ... just stick your Wii in plain view in your car in "that" part of town ...
Or if you don't want them to steal your car, stick a Zune in plain view - that's like kryptonite to thieves.
But don't let this discourage any mad scientist from creating ocular implants, especially ones with wifi and defensive laser beams.
Porn. After you go blind from watching too much porn, you'll get an implant that beams the porn directly to your brain.
a nice caligraphic decorative font, a decent script or brushscript font, a bubble-letters or stencil font
They probably realized that people will mix-and-match too much, and their stuff will end up looking like a ransom letter.
You do not buy a license when you buy a copyrighted product - you buy the product. You only need a license if you want to do something with it that copyright law doesn't already let you do. For most people this is not necessary.
Nope - you're buying the media the copyright product came on, and you have a combination of rights - those granted by copyright law, and those granted by the author by license (as per copyright law).
You do NOT get the right, even under copyright law (except by permission of the rights-holder), to make and distribute additional copies.
In the hypothetical case where there was a free seat and the theatre has no actual expenses resulting from one additional guest, there is just trespass.
A theatre isn't limited just by the number of physical seats. Other qualities such as ventilation, fire safety and acoustics also tend to be sensitive to the size of the audience. Again, in the hypothetical case where no such limitation is compromised by the trespasser there is no cost involved.
No, it's still theft of service, in addition to trespass. Your argument is akin to someone stealing donuts because "they were going to be thrown out anyway at the end of the shift, since nobody bought them." It's not a zero-sum game. Unless you have permission, you ARE stealing. Get over it.
Also, your argument completely fails in the case of cable services theft, where the incremental cost to the distributor is zero - you're still a thief.
In the case of the people stealing the game, theat they are stealing the game via the route of copyright infringement is just one of the modalities of theft, same as they could have stolen it by defrauding the vendor (fake credit card, etc), or stealing a computer with the game already on it. Stop trying to justify it by saying it's "only" copyright infringement. It's both copyright infringement AND theft. One doesn't preclude the other.
At 1600 pounds and 36 feet when does a model rocket become just a rocket?
When it achieves orbit around Uranus?
Picture of the model, since the site is slow http://www.rocketryplanet.com/images/content/2829/1.jpg
The disk might not belong to the pubisher ay more, but the content does.
No, it does not. He has certain limited exclusive rights to it but it does not in any way belong to him
Actually, the content - the particular pattern of bits - DOES belong to them - that's the only reason they're entitled to license it out. You bought a license to use those bits - you don't own them, and you have no right to copy them extant an agreement to the contrary.
The air that I breathe does not belong to me, yet I breathe it all the time and don't at all feel guilty about it. Please explain how you reconcile this with the notion that "taking something that doesn't belong to you" is necessarily unethical.
The air you breathe doesn't have an owner. If we were in a space station, or on the moon, you can be damn sure that you'd have to earn your allotment.
Also, even though the air doesn't have an owner, we still have pollution laws, so you can't just treat the "commons" like a sewer any more.
If you're "trespassing" inside a movie theatre, it's called theft of service.
And only because you are actually taking something away from the owner: one seat he could have sold to someone else. There is no such cost to the copyright holder when you make a copy of a copyrighted work.
You just made my argument for me. The only reason there's an empty seat is because they didn't sell out - so it was a "potential" sale. And yet, you argue that you have actually taken something away from the owner - one seat he could have (but didn't) sell to someone else.
Also, even if you remained standing the whole movie, you're still stealing, it's still theft of service - the law doesn't care for your position - sitting, standing, or whatever.
All the people trying to justify/rationalize stealing - what are you going to call it when someone steals your identity? "Identity infringement?" After all, you still have your identity. They didn't "really" steal it ... (but they did).
When someone steals your identify you do in practice lose it since you will soon find that companies and institutions disbelieve you when you try to explain who you are.
You "in practice" lost it the same way that the game publisher "in practice" lost their money ... you still have your identity, it's just worth less, same as game publishers lose financially when people steal their shit.
Anything else is hypocritical.
Then again, what can we expect from a culture that has produced the biggest crime wave ever - millions of people routinely committing fraud to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars so they can buy a pile of bricks. Fitch analysed a batch of mortgages from the housing bubble - not ONE didn't involve fraud. As a nation of individuals, millions of you did the crime, but we ALL end up "doing the time", thanks to the "I want mine, and I want it NOW" entitlement attitude.
Easy way to fix the housing bubble bust - anyone who committed mortgage fraud gets an automatic 10-year suspended sentence. They also forfeit their pile of bricks - no bail-out. The ratings agencies and banks that were complicit are nationalized, liquidated, and their shareholders and bondholders also wiped out for being complicit.
It would be cheaper than the current bail-out scheme, which just rewards the thieves and crooks.
Receiving services for which you know you have to pay, and not paying, however... that is theft because someone has been directly deprived of their time.
Bullshit - there is NO difference. How is someone "directly deprived of their time" by people blue-boxing? They're stealing phone service, and yet nobody has been directly deprived of their time. Ditto with cable TV service theft. You can't even argue the indirect costs are increased, since they're broadcasting the same signal along the wire whether you tap into it or not, so their costs haven't risen. What HAS happened is that you have taken something that doesn't belong to you, without permission.
That's theft. Or are you going to try to claim that it's really only "copyright infringement" because they weren't deprived of their copy? So if someone goes and pays for a duplicate of your drivers' license and steals your identity, it's also "not theft" because you haven't been deprived of ANYTHING? Get real.
You want something so much, beg, borrow, or buy it. Don't steal it.
If I "borrow" something from you every night after you go to sleep, without yur permission, and return it in the morning before you awake, is that not repeated theft? Even though you didn't know about it? Or are you going to argue that, as long as it was returned and you didn't know, it wasn't theft because you weren't deprived of it ... in which case, I guess it's also okay by you for your spouse to cheat on you, as long as YOU don't know about it ... after all, the sex they had with someone else was an intangible that you "weren't deprived of" - unless you want to have sex with whoever they were having sex with, or wanted to watch, or whatever.
Copying the content falls under the "taking something that doesn't belong to you" aspect of stealing. Or did your mother not teach you not to take that which doesn't belong to you without asking first?
ou are not stealing from him anymore than you would be stealing from someone by trespassing on their physical property. (Note, the latter is trespass, also not theft.)
If you're "trespassing" inside a movie theatre, it's called theft of service. The movie theatre is providing the service of showing a movie, and your trespass is so that you can steal their service (watching a movie) without paying. In other words, the law has recognized for a long time that you can steal intangibles, such as long distance service (blue boxes phone phreaking), cable tv, etc.
All the people trying to justify/rationalize stealing - what are you going to call it when someone steals your identity? "Identity infringement?" After all, you still have your identity. They didn't "really" steal it ... (but they did).