said by atpnots :said by BF69:said by Matt:Their piracy. Not thievery. Apples and Oranges.
Ok so if you're ever out on a boat and I come on and commit PIRCAY that'll be ok with you because I'm not committing thievery.
Fact is "PIRACY" is illegal too and Comcast is under ZERO obligation to provide people comitting ILLEGAL acts the means to do such acts.
The facts are that no one has been charged with "piracy" or "theft". It is called "copy-right infringement". Ripping a music CD or movie DVD and uploading it is called "copy-right infringement" by the courts and it is not called "piracy" or "theft". People who have been convicted of this are tried in civil courts and not in criminal courts.
Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on the shore, without a commission from a sovereign nation
Theft (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief.
Anyone who has ever let a friend or family member borrow a music cd or movie dvd, a book or a console game are guilty of CI because you made the material available and you don't have the rights to do that.
A) it's wrong. who cares what you call it. You're playing symantics. Kind of like saying 40 year old man having sex with a willing 16 year girl old isn't technically either rape or child molestation. Technically no, but he still shouldn't be doing it.
