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>You waste your time on sophistry. I was musing, thinking out loud so to speak and didn't say stealing by anyone was OK. Remind me never to think out loud in front of you again, like other thinking it seems to be wasted on you.

It's my time, not yours, I'll decide whether or not I'm wasting it. This is a topic that is extremely important to me. You jumped in & stated something that happens to be factually incorrect.

Moreover, what you did was to inflame with rhetoric, precisely what you accused the other guy of, which is not to say that you were completely incorrect in yr assertion.

>I don't need you or the fella who posted on the thread to tell me what is and isn't theft. The Jesuits trained me in both conscience and dissembling, I know one from the other.

I see. Did the Jesuits teach you words like 'fuckee?'

Copyright infringement is NOT theft. Don't complain that anyone's splitting hairs here, because you're wrong about that. Period. This creates a problem where anyone who makes the point I'm making is typically then accused to be excusing or rationalizing theft, which is not the case.

Here's a thought, though: if you were correct about that, and you ever so much as made one cassette recording off the radio or of an album prior to 1992, then you were guilty of...theft. So was anyone who chose to make a cassette copy of anything off the radio, or any record, 8-track, whatever, that they did not own the copyright on. That means anyone who didn't buy a prerecorded cassette copy of an album to play in their walkman, boombox, or car stereo, even if they'd bought the album, was guilty of copyright infringement...which you are telling us, erroneously, is theft.

Are you going to tell me you never did such a thing? Because unless you didn't, then by yr own standards you are a thief. I have to wonder if you were this much of a hard-liner prior to the Audio Home Recording Act. I also have to wonder if you have ripped any of your legally purchased CDs to your computer. Guess what: if you were robbed, and your CDs were stolen, you would be compelled by the law to destroy your MP3 files. Would you do that?

I don't really care if you're the only one left reading this. As I stated elsewhere in this thread, my business suffers from illegal file-sharing, and all you do by calling copyright infringement, theft, is to stir more people up & delay the process of a much-needed overhaul of the DMCA. Is that really yr intent here? When it comes down to defending yr estimation of the law based on who it was that schooled you while also telling others to kiss yr ass, I have to wonder.

In the meantime, copyright infringement remains just that, not theft. If you can point to a law that supports yr position & not mine, please do. I do know that courts have stated otherwise. I also know that the attorney who posted often in the thread I linked to is more knowledgeable on the subject than either you or I. I'll take his word for it over you & whoever schooled you on the law, ethics, or anything else, thank you very much.


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