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hiyou102  ·  4281 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

Should we steal movies because the copyright is morally ambiguous? By the same token, it's OK to rob banks because the mafia might have them.

Piracy is still stealing in the same way copying answers off of someone else's test is.





JakobVirgil  ·  4281 days ago  ·  link  ·  

the word theft does not even apply to file-sharing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft

I disagree with your test analogy what test is a pirate cheating on?

In my opinion it is okay to rob mafia owned banks. (if you can get away with it).

dublinben  ·  4281 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Plagiarism and copyright infringement are entirely different, and neither are stealing. Nobody who is downloading the latest Bruno Mars album is passing it off as their own, in order to take credit for it.