Re: The challenge of serving *EVERYONE* (was RE: Mozilla blog: DRM and the Challenge of Serving Users)

On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 17:20 +0200, David Singer wrote:

> Let’s get this clear.  If you enjoy, without your paying for it,  an experience that someone creates, and is only making available to those who pay for the experience, that is theft.

This is not true.  Copyright infringement and theft are different
concepts.  Enjoyment, as far as I know, is not yet a crime anywhere.  If
it is, the crime certainly isn't theft.

>  No amount of rhetoric about how easy it is, how natural it is, or how desirable it is for you, will change that.

This is true.  Copyright infringement and theft can never be considered
the same thing because theft refers to that act of denying someone
possession of an object and infringing copyright does not mean denying
someone possession.  That can never be changed.  The concepts are
written in law.  You're quite right.

-- 
Bob Ham <rah@settrans.net>

for (;;) { ++pancakes; }