I never said "felony". "Theft" is not legalese, and it
means taking someone's personal property (go look it up in
a simple, English, non-legalese dictionary). Depriving
someone of income is not "theft". Violating copyright is
not necessarilly depriving someone of income.
So violating copyright is quite a bit removed from "theft".
But you have so missed the point of my note that I doubt
you'll be able to understand what I'm talking about here
either.
And, again, I'm not advocating the violation of copyrights.
I just find even discussing the concept of copyright
pointless if we can't get passed the (mistaken) idea that
the information is "property", much less getting passed the
idea that copying it is "theft".
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tye
(but my friends call me "Tye")