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Copyright Infringement Still Isn’t Theft, Even When A Microsoft Employee Says It Is (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (10 children)

It's not fair use and it's theft. The artists and creators had no way of opting out because most didn't know about it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    It’s not theft. It’s plagiarism. They’re different.

    Your second point is a valid problem with what they did (but doing something that is wrong doesn’t mean it is theft).

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    If I ran into a university and stole all of their teaching aids, books and art to "train my university students, that's still fucking theft. Why tf would you stick up for them in any way?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Did you copy them or keep them?

    Why are you interpreting this as defending them?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Don't you have to steal them to copy them? The fact that no one knew they were stealing them to copy, means the owners didn't know, couldn't opt out or protect them. Just because it's not a law yet, doesn't make it okay.

    Why are you interpreting this as defending them?

    Why are you not? You wrote the defense out.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    If someone still has their belongings after a “theft” it’s not theft.

    What they are doing is violating the artists (and much more heinous things), but calling it theft isn’t accurate, has undesirable side effects, and doesn’t solve the problem of stopping them doing what they’re doing.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    don't you have to steal them to copy them

    No, you can go into the library and take pictures / scans of the pages without the books ever leaving the library.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    ... and then write cheap copies without any penalties whatsoever, right?

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