Please, would you stop using the word "stealing" in this context? It makes your arguments much less powerful.
Take this blog post from Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert):
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_d...yright_vi.html
While I disagree with some of his points, he at least agrees to some extent that there is a difference between "stealing" and "copyright infringement".
You might also find this interesting:
http://philip.greenspun.com/dldf/dismiss-order.html
esp. this part:
Quote:
It follows that interference with copyright does not easily equate
with theft, conversion or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a
separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a copyright:
"Anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright
owner," that is, anyone who trespasses into his exclusive domain by
using or authorizing the use of the copyrighted work in one of the
five ways set forth in the statute, "is an infringer of the
copyright."
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