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I wasn't specific enough, I was referring specifically to the moralist argument 'theft is theft' being applied to an issue that the law says it's not specifically applicable to. You're right, though, I lost sight of how that might've been interpreted in the the discussion. Quite possibly not the only such mistake I made, but this is a complicated issue that deserves mention of the nuances, without which, the discussion is reduced to a level where...'theft is theft.' My position is that the discussion is worthy of being discussed on a level where this sort of moralising is shown to be inaccurate & not helpful.

Part of the reason why the law hasn't caught up to the technology, is because the law likely doesn't completely understand the technology. Why else would Viacom sue Google/YouTube for copyright infringement when their own online IFilm hosts images that infringe on the copyrights of others...seemingly without having to even consider that their own actions could provide damning evidence against them?

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070319-infringing-videos-on-ifilm-could-cause-problems-for-viacom.html

When they forced YouTube to pull content on the basis of their copyrights being infringed...even though the material in question was not, in fact, owned by Viacom?

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/03/22/ap3542388.html

When one of the people responsible for the DMCA states that that the blame for the lack of respect afforded copyrights among illegal file-shareres belongs more to the RIAA than to the illegal file-sharers?

Perhaps the finger pointed at me for rationlizing theft, when I have done no such thing, should be pointed in his direction, as well.


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