(March 27, 2012 at 6:32 pm)Mosrhun Wrote: It's really not theft, it's potential money loss yes. If Ferrari gave you a $500,000 car for free, did you steal it? No, did they lose out on potential money? Yes. But even then we're talking about physical copies. Data is data and can be copied free of charge infinite times.
Whatever though, I can see me and Tibs are going to be best of friends.
Did Adobe give you Photoshop for free? If not, your entire analogy doesn't work. It's not your data to copy, ergo you are stealing their data when you copy it for free.
If I buy a copy of Harry Potter, and then type it out, word for word on my own computer, and then publish this data online for anyone to download for free, it is a crime. That's because the data that forms the works of Harry Potter is copyrighted to J K Rowling, and you cannot simply copy it and give it away, or sell it.
