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Senate bill bans P2P networks (News.com)Senate bill bans P2P networks (News.com)Posted Jun 25, 2004 4:36 UTC (Fri) by raytd (guest, #4823)In reply to: Senate bill bans P2P networks (News.com) by ccchips Parent article: Senate bill bans P2P networks (News.com) Split hairs (it's copyright infringement, not stealing.) No. It is NOT splitting hairs. It is a matter of law that copyright infringement is NOT theft. There are very good reasons for this. I am a copyright holder, and there are perfectly valid reasons for you to legally copy my work and deprive me of my so called earnings (infringement), as I maintain every right to license or sell those rights. I am a property owner, but you may NOT legally deprive me of my rights to license/lease or sell that property (theft). There is absolutely no reason to use their definition of terms for the purposes of admitting that there are people that infringe upon the rights of so called content owners. If copyright infringement was intended to mean larceny, It would have been termed that from the beginning. Apologies if I seem harsh, but it seems you have become a victim of brain-washing.
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