I'm afraid it's you that needs to hold on a minute.
First of all, it is not theft of intellectual property. That is nothing more than a fiction of convenience that those who parasitically profit from so called 'intellectual property.'
I hate to break it to you and all of those deluded people who think that they're actually stealing something when they copy software, but it most definitely is not theft. Theft is depriving somebody of something whereby if I possess it then you don't--software fails that test miserably. I defy you to come up with a court case where the judge framed a copyright violation as such!
Repeat after me: Copying software is not piracy, or theft, or any other emotionally charged word that you or the IP cartels choose to attach to it. It iscopyright infringement and nothing more.
Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is being disingenuous.
And if you think that copyright infrimgement has the same legal stature as theft, you're also badly mistaken. It is only by deluding the public at large (and you seem to have bought into it yourself) that copying software is the same as theft that the IP cartels have been able to whip up such hysteria so that they are able to get the Fed involved. It truly is amazing what you can do by repeatedly shouting a lie at the top of your lungs--eventually you get people to believe it.
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I'm afraid it's you that needs to hold on a minute.
First of all, it is not theft of intellectual property. That is nothing more than a fiction of convenience that those who parasitically profit from so called 'intellectual property.'
I hate to break it to you and all of those deluded people who think that they're actually stealing something when they copy software, but it most definitely is not theft. Theft is depriving somebody of something whereby if I possess it then you don't--software fails that test miserably. I defy you to come up with a court case where the judge framed a copyright violation as such!
Repeat after me: Copying software is not piracy, or theft, or any other emotionally charged word that you or the IP cartels choose to attach to it. It is copyright infringement and nothing more.
Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is being disingenuous.
And if you think that copyright infrimgement has the same legal stature as theft, you're also badly mistaken. It is only by deluding the public at large (and you seem to have bought into it yourself) that copying software is the same as theft that the IP cartels have been able to whip up such hysteria so that they are able to get the Fed involved. It truly is amazing what you can do by repeatedly shouting a lie at the top of your lungs--eventually you get people to believe it.