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Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by 127 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @06:26AM (#3484012)
If I build a factory at great personal cost, but the materials and electricity to produce the goods cost next to nothing, is it theft if people take these goods without my permission? I don't see the difference between this and intellectual property.

You say it is not accurate but don't provide anything substantial to back up your claim. Instead you use a logical fallacy: because these persons are bad, thus the argument of using term "theft" is bad.

Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by redbad on Thursday January 19, 2012 @07:05AM (#3484106)
When someone takes your factory and materials and electricity, you don't have them any more.
Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by dhimes on Thursday January 19, 2012 @08:23AM (#3484350)
You missed his argument. What is it when someone steals his (extremely cheap to produce) goods?
Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by Tyrannosaurs on Thursday January 19, 2012 @08:39AM (#3484391)
It's theft but extremely cheap is not the same as free.
Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by jellicle on Thursday January 19, 2012 @09:52AM (#3484669)
When someone takes his goods, he doesn't have them any more.
Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by dhimes on Thursday January 19, 2012 @10:46AM (#3484921)
It's not like he was trying to collect them, he was trying to sell them. This person took them without paying.
Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by Symmetry on Thursday January 19, 2012 @10:17AM (#3484783)
What if someone figures out how to make a similar factory very cheaply, and drives you out of business by only charging their marginal production costs for their widgets? The important difference, I think, is that they're using their own materials and electricity to make their goods, but people who engage in copyright infringement are too.

EDIT: And I'd note that many would would say that this second person is "Stealing the customers" of the first factory owner, but that doesn't mean what he does is actually morally equivalent to stealing.

Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by 127 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @03:24PM (#3486491)
If they make their own factory then that is ok. Simple capitalism. That is not my point, however. If they use the original factory without paying that is not ok.