Kyle;195654 Wrote: > But theft of intellectual property is still theft.
Except that statement presupposes the conclusion, ie you have a logical error in your argument. Of course theft of X is theft, just as a painting of a car is a painting. But you haven't defined what theft is, which is where the problem lies. Is everything done by Negativland theft? Why or why not? Years ago, outside Ghirdelli Square in SF, there was an old guy with his guitar. A real fixture there, and he was there for decades. Heck, he may still be there. If he sings a song written by someone else is that theft? I doubt he is reporting his public performances and turning over a portion of the spare change to ASCAP.... Is that theft? Why or why not? Theft is very easy to define in the physical world: it is much more difficult in the IP world. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34366 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
