If piracy and theft were identical, there wouldn't need to be a separate word. Theft deprives the owner of their property. Piracy is creating an unsanctioned copy of their property.
"A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened."
I think he was referring to "piracy" in the sense of pirates on pirate ships. Piracy is literally theft in its original sense.
The question now is if modern day software piracy and similar intellectual property copying is theft. If it isn't then perhaps "piracy" is a bad term for it?
Comments like this violate the HN guidelines by taking threads on generic ideological tangents. It's easy to do that without meaning to, so would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take care not to in the future?
If piracy and theft were identical, there wouldn't need to be a separate word. Theft deprives the owner of their property. Piracy is creating an unsanctioned copy of their property.
"A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened."
I think he was referring to "piracy" in the sense of pirates on pirate ships. Piracy is literally theft in its original sense.
The question now is if modern day software piracy and similar intellectual property copying is theft. If it isn't then perhaps "piracy" is a bad term for it?
This confusion is exactly why "piracy" was used as a marketing term by the MPAA & friends.
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I think people have the intellectual capacity to learn newer and subtle definitions for words. Give them some credit.
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Comments like this violate the HN guidelines by taking threads on generic ideological tangents. It's easy to do that without meaning to, so would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take care not to in the future?