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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Is copyright infringement theft or isn't it?
Of course most online articles on the subject are taking into consideration the broad range of copyright infringement types that can occur. But when the argument is narrowed down only to online intellectual property (video, photo images, written stories etc), and in the scenario where they are inside one's private member's area and are then copied and displayed on someone else's site (for profit in any form, such as ad sales), I really don't see any other way to see said copying and redistribution without authorization than for what it is... theft.
If you're more compfy with term "Piracy" then so be it. But as the above quote says, the two terms are, in the court's eyes, interchangeable.
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i am am more comfortable with the term piracy because that is what is considered interchangeable.
your own quotation shows that ""have of late been mercilessly
pirated"
the problem is your taking a terminology defined before the first copyright act was defined (and therefore before fair use was recognized) and using in a context after fair use was defined and recognized.
Your using a term that was defined when talking about an absolute monopoly and applying to the law after the monopoly was made conditional (wrapped in fair use)
Likewise conceeding that piracy (derived from to pirate) and copyright infringements are the same term, it again quite clearly not theft.
the laws regarding salvage, mitigated/eliminated the crime of piracy just fair use mitigates/eliminates the copyright infringement.
there is no mitigation to theft, and that is the problem refering to copyright infringement as theft puts copyright back to it original absolute monopoly.