[LINK] Theft, copyright, larceny...

[Craig Sanders]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:24:26PM +1000, Robin Stephens wrote:
> > Hew Raymond Griffiths ran the piracy group Drink or Die from his
> >home at Bateau Bay on the New South Wales central coast. He was
> >extradited to the US earlier this year to face charges relating to
> >the theft of nearly 60 million worth of software movies and music.
>
> This confuses me.
>
> Are they calling the act of reselling copyrighted materials theft?

nope. as i understand it, the guy didn't sell anything. he was just a
warez kiddie, distributing copied games etc for free.

what they're trying to do is establish the newspeak that "copyright
infringement" (of any kind) is "theft".  they are being assisted in this
endeavour by governments, pro-business lobby groups, and journalists (both
willing corporate shills and the semantically-lazy).


craig

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