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Re:Five arrests in 'fully loaded' Kodi streaming box raids by stonogo on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @05:04PM (#13602610)
No. This 'semantic tangent' has very real consequences. The propaganda equating copyright infringement with robbery is bullshit, but bullshit with a purpose: getting the government to pick up the task of copyright enforcement, because it's too costly to make sense for the lobbying organizations to do it themselves.

If we accepted your handwaving, people charged with actually robbing someone's home and people charged with downloading half a season of Glee would face the same sentencing standards. That is obviously deranged.

So, no. The debate must continue, until consensus is reached and the matter fixed in law.

Re:Five arrests in 'fully loaded' Kodi streaming box raids by hsod on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @05:15PM (#13602706)
> If we accepted your handwaving, people charged with actually robbing someone's home and people charged with downloading half a season of Glee would face the same sentencing standards.

Can you expand on this? Seems like a non-sequitur.

Re:Five arrests in 'fully loaded' Kodi streaming box raids by hueving on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @06:32PM (#13603248)
You are equating making a copy with theft.