- From: Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:13:03 -0700
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
> No, it is more like the people objecting to enclosed shops, where > pilfering is much harder then when the same goods are sold from open > stalls in a market. That would have been a good analogy twenty years ago. When physical media were still used, one could actually steal content. I'd take your copy - or, more precisely, the disc upon which it resided - and you'd be less one copy yourself. That's theft. Nowadays, technological improvements mean that I can make a copy of your media, with perfect fidelity. You haven't lost anything - you still have the original - and I've gained, say, some music. This simply isn't theft by any reasonable use of the term. It can be other things. Copyright violation, for example. Manifestly unfair, if it leads to artists not being paid for their time. But theft? Not really. -- Duncan Bayne ph: +61 420817082 | web: http://duncan-bayne.github.com/ | skype: duncan_bayne I usually check my mail every 24 - 48 hours. If there's something urgent going on, please send me an SMS or call me at the above number.
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