[LINK] Theft, copyright, larceny...

[Adam Todd]

At 03:47 PM 27/06/2007, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>
>>Joe sells CDs and DVDs for which he gets $10 each (or whatever)
>>Bill copies one of Joe's CDs and gives it to Fred.
>>Bill has not stolen any information from Joe beacuse Joe still has 
>>the information and is not deprived of it.
>>However, Joe can be described as having lost the opportunity to 
>>sell information, not lost the information itself.
>>In this model, Bill has stolen something from Joe in exactly the 
>>same way as if he had stolen a CD.
>
>Heaven forbid if we begin to reform our concept of property law
>along the lines you suggest.

Oh but "we" have - Todd V Todd NSWSC 30 August 2006 (sigh)


In any event I agree, it's bad.  Bill hasn't stolen anything from 
Joe.  If anyone, Fred has stolen from Joe.  But that aside, Fred 
probably wouldn't but the CD in the first place and if Fred really 
liked the CD, he'd go and buy it because Freed knows that Joe needs 
money to make his next CD right?