From: Paul Battley Date: 2006-05-16T22:05:38+09:00 Subject: Re: Ticked Off On 16/05/06, Tim Becker wrote:> Pirating a pdf is not theft. Stealing something implies that the owner is no> in possession of that object. I.e. I steal your car, you no longer have a car.> Pirating is copyright infringement. There is a difference, even if> some people in this thread are implying copyright infringement is> tantamount to murder. Personally, I've always thought that there is a significantqualitative difference between making an unlicensed copy and trollingaround the Malacca Straits with guns and knives, looting passing shipsand murdering their crews and passengers, so I try to avoid the word'piracy' to describe copying a book or CD. I try not to call it theft either. Whilst some people equate copyrightinfringement with theft, they are substantively and legally different.Whether they are morally equivalent is a different matter, though.Confusing the vocabulary doesn't help to advance the debate. Paul.