From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Intellectual Pooperty Law
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 04:17:29 +0200 (CEST)
"If I steal your copy, you don't have it anymore. If I make a new
copy, we both have one!"
I'd argue against that like this: suppose I owned a zoo. I charge
admission for all those who want to enter. You sneak in through a
hole
in the fence, enjoy a day at the zoo, and sneak out. By that
argument,
I should not prosecute or go after you, because I still have the
zoo.
Then you're mistaking an attack on the specfics of the PR rhetoric of
'steal,' 'theft' and 'piracy' for something making a statement about
the real meanings of those words. It's copyright infringement not
'theft.' That's why people avoid such language and talk of 'GPL
violations' which are also a matter of copyright law. Although
that's merely a convenient vehicle for maintaining the four freedoms.
