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Re:"Piracy" sounds too sexy, say rightsholders by raganwald on Thursday March 18, 2010 @02:50PM (#1202134)
I'd like to know how James Murdoch manages to reproduce and distribute Pringles with virtually zero cost as compared with traditional manufacturing? I'd sure like that app, "click to create a new pack of Pringles".

Talking about trivial consumer products brings a lot of emotion into this kind of debate.

How does this differ from digital services such as FathomDB or Heroku? If I crack their service somehow so that I can use their product to help my company make more money without paying them, am I a thief?

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Re:"Piracy" sounds too sexy, say rightsholders by daveungerer on Thursday March 18, 2010 @03:19PM (#1202231)
If you somehow obtain their source code and run your own server, that would be copyright infringement.

If you manage to use it on their servers, with the associated running costs (disk space, CPU and RAM usage, support if you're a clever cracker) then you are in fact a thief - you are stealing their resources.

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