Re: Balance - (was RE: Formal Objection to Working Group Decision to publish Encrypted Media Extensions specification as a First Public Working Draft (FPWD))

On 06/15/2013 12:32 AM, John Foliot wrote:
 > ... and steal other content with different types of licenses, via sites
 > like Pirate Bay ...


Illegal copying of copyrighted material via Pirate Bay is not theft,
it is copyright infringement[1].  It is quite telling that you use
the same misleading terminology that the MPAA use to make it sound
graver than it is according to law (including U.S. law[2]).

MPAA doublespeak   | in the real world
=------------------------------------------
property           | copyright
steal/theft        | copyright infringement
content protection | user restrictions

Please use the proper terms henceforth, thank you.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial
[2]
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.pdf

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Received on Sunday, 16 June 2013 20:46:39 UTC