Re:Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blo...
by logfromblammo on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:46PM
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So... English has a lot of metaphor-based idioms.
As copyright infringement is a matter of law, the literal legal context is the only one that matters.
I have seen a lot of people desperately trying to make a moral equivalence between theft and copyright infringement on the basis of dictionaries and thesauruses, and it just doesn't fly as an argument.
When you copy something, you are not dispossessing the current owner. The only reasonable way to translate theft into the world of intangible goods is as "plagiarism" or "counterfeiting".
As copyright infringement is a matter of law, the literal legal context is the only one that matters.
I have seen a lot of people desperately trying to make a moral equivalence between theft and copyright infringement on the basis of dictionaries and thesauruses, and it just doesn't fly as an argument.
When you copy something, you are not dispossessing the current owner. The only reasonable way to translate theft into the world of intangible goods is as "plagiarism" or "counterfeiting".