Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ____/ Andrew Halliwell on Friday 01 August 2008 20:11 : \____
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>> Moshe Goldfarb. <brick_n_straw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:34:50 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> How can you steal something that is free?
>>
>> Copyright infringement is not theft.
>> It is copyright infringement, but the MPAA infringed on copyright by not
>> abiding by the GPL which is a permissive license. If you do not abide by it
>> then normal copyright law comes into force.
>>
>> They didn't negotiate with anyone to use the code without having to
>> distribute the source, thereofre, they illegally copied and distributed it.
>>
>> Therefore, they're fucking hypocrits.
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> I put 'steal' in scare quotes, intentionally. I thought it would be funny to
> misuse the word just the like Media Mafia does.
I know you did, moshe however did not.
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