RE: Australia: Tough New Anti-Piracy Measures
March 6, 2015 at 9:10 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2015 at 9:11 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 6, 2015 at 8:58 pm)Aractus Wrote: No, the law doesn't see it as theft, it sees it as "copyright infringement". And the most severe kind of copyright infringement is profiting from the works of others.
You're technically correct. I'm speaking conceptually, though. You are taking something you haven't bought: the right to enjoy the artist's output. Taking something that does not belong to you is theft, by definition.
Are you free to do as you wish with someone else's property?
ETA: not saying you yourself are doing that, it's the generic "you".