said by p2pThief :said by sturmvogel:To see how stupid this is. You have a car that you bought. Someone passes by the street and drawns then makes an exact copy of it, then drives away in "his" copy.
Have you lost anything ? Has the original manufacturer of the car lost anything ?
People that make movies/music/software are entitled to compensation for their work. People may think the price is too high but no one is being forced to buy it and we certainly don't have the right to copy and distribute their work. While copyright infringement may not technically be theft, it certainly results in theft of income for the artist or programmer.
Still not convinced? Take a $20 bill and make a few hundred copies of it and then pass them at your local convenience store. It's your $20, right? You should be able to copy it right? You haven't stolen anything, right? Sounds legal to me.
So go try it and let us know how it works for you.
It is not "theft of income". That would be if the p2p downloader would copy the data to a CD and then SELL that CD for money. In that case the income that should have gone to the copyright OWNER (in many case NOT the same as the artist) would go to the infringer. Very different scenario.
