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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   Thanatos sent the following on 10/28/2009 6:29 PM:   
   > In article ,   
   >  Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Frank Frank sent the following on 10/28/2009 3:28 AM:   
   >>> Jim Gysin wrote:   
   >>>> SFTV_troy sent the following on 10/26/2009 8:24 PM:   
   >>>>> On Oct 26, 3:05 pm, Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   >>>>>> [Rest of lame justification for theft snipped.]   
   >>> Who said anything about theft? Copying something is not theft.   
   >> If you don't have the legal right to copy it, it's theft.   
   >   
   > Not according to the Supreme Court.   
      
   It's theft in the moral sense, which is the perspective I'm using, even   
   if the Supremes have made it okay in a legal sense.  And this is hardly   
   the only domain in which the Supremes have okayed something that I find   
   highly immoral.   
      
   > The Court has definitely ruled that copyright infringement is not theft   
   > or stealing.   
   >   
   >> It's obviously an inconvenient reality for freeloaders like   
   >> yourself, but denial doesn't change reality.   
   >   
   > Behold the irony... it's not Frank that doesn't seem to understand the   
   > legal realities here.   
      
   We're talking past each other here.  I understand the legal realities,   
   but I'm talking about the way things *should* be in my version of a   
   moral world, not the way they necessarily are at present.   
      
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   Jim Gysin   
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