[plug] Re: "stealing"?

[Mike Holland]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:

> Copyright infringement == stealing.

"Meat is murder", "abortion is murder", "Property is theft"
nothing but political slogans, and all wrong by definition, irrespective 
of your moral/political viewpoint.

 Copyright is something that some societies choose to have, when they feel 
it is to their collective benefit. It is not an instinsic truth or divine 
proclamation.

  The distincion is important when it comes to patents, which can do much
harm as well as good.


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