This is true. It’s infringement, and they’re different words for a reason.
But …
Infringement is against the law. The people doing this live in an environment in which what they’re doing is illegal. If they have philosophical opposition to intellectual “property” (that formulation is grossly dishonest) they can fight it. Or ignore it. Or whatever. But if they infringe while the laws are still there, they will have the current laws applied to them. (This is just common sense.)
And I said if you’re going to have the notion of intellectual property at all, it’s not the fourteen year old kid who downloads a Metallica album that should be jailed. It’s the motherfuckers literally walking off with the collected knowledge and creative output of humanity and walling it off behind their expensive product who should.
I agree, actually. While I think there does have to be some protection against people using the work of creatives without some form of recompense, the current laws surrounding this are broken to the point of uselessness. Only the huge masters get benefit from IP law in the west, not the people.
We need to fix that whole aspect of human life. But until then, we need to also recognize that we live in a broken system and people who play stupid games in that system win stupid prizes.
Wouldn’t that depend on the scale?
Steal $0.01 and prison is clearly ludicrous.
What about stealing $1,000,000,000?
Still not prison worthy IMO
Piracy isn’t theft, so that $1B figure isn’t really comparable to stealing a billion dollars of gold.
And I still don’t think that stealing a billion dollars of gold is prison worthy.
No, it wouldn’t. Copyright violations isn’t theft. Period.
Boooo
This is true. It’s infringement, and they’re different words for a reason.
But …
Infringement is against the law. The people doing this live in an environment in which what they’re doing is illegal. If they have philosophical opposition to intellectual “property” (that formulation is grossly dishonest) they can fight it. Or ignore it. Or whatever. But if they infringe while the laws are still there, they will have the current laws applied to them. (This is just common sense.)
And I said if you’re going to have the notion of intellectual property at all, it’s not the fourteen year old kid who downloads a Metallica album that should be jailed. It’s the motherfuckers literally walking off with the collected knowledge and creative output of humanity and walling it off behind their expensive product who should.
Yeah, you’re right about that. Still, I believe that the carceral approach should be avoided as much as possible.
I agree, actually. While I think there does have to be some protection against people using the work of creatives without some form of recompense, the current laws surrounding this are broken to the point of uselessness. Only the huge masters get benefit from IP law in the west, not the people.
We need to fix that whole aspect of human life. But until then, we need to also recognize that we live in a broken system and people who play stupid games in that system win stupid prizes.
Yeah, you’re right about that. Still, I believe that the carceral approach should be avoided as much as possible.