Despite your fun little loopholes, piracy by definition is theft. Find a different word for it if you’d like, but you can’t redefine the term because you don’t like what it implies.
Also… you cherry-picked your definition:
An act of robbery on the high seas, also an act resembling such robbery
unauthorized use of another’s production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
Miriam Webster is where I got my definition from. You absolutely cherry picked. You only included the part that made your point for you and left out the part that made mine:
I feel like this is where the “piracy is [not] theft” message breaks down. The question most people care about isn’t whether or not it’s definitively theft, but rather whether it’s ethical or not.
By definition- it is.
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Despite your fun little loopholes, piracy by definition is theft. Find a different word for it if you’d like, but you can’t redefine the term because you don’t like what it implies.
Also… you cherry-picked your definition:
An act of robbery on the high seas, also an act resembling such robbery
unauthorized use of another’s production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
If you can’t own it you can’t steal it.
Yeah… I’ve heard that tired argument before also. Some companies aren’t ALL companies. So this falls apart when nuance and common sense is applied.
Good luck getting bamboozled!
Nearly everything I own is digital versions. I’ve not once had an issue being “bambozled.”
But then again, I don’t blow things out of proportion and apply the behavior of one thing to all things. This happens when one matures into adulthood.
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Miriam Webster is where I got my definition from. You absolutely cherry picked. You only included the part that made your point for you and left out the part that made mine:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piracy
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I feel like this is where the “piracy is [not] theft” message breaks down. The question most people care about isn’t whether or not it’s definitively theft, but rather whether it’s ethical or not.