Yes, it is also theft. But we live in a world where privileged groups of people can get away with crimes while non privileged people will have to pay for those same crimes. It's called a two tiered justice system. Almost every country on Earth has a two-tiered justice system
If it is theft to download a movie you haven't paid for, as these goons claim, is it also not theft to take away a movie I have paid for?
Fortunately, I don't do the latter.
Yes, it is also theft. But we live in a world where privileged groups of people can get away with crimes while non privileged people will have to pay for those same crimes. It's called a two tiered justice system. Almost every country on Earth has a two-tiered justice system
It was never theft and it's stupid to give money to people who hate you, for any reason.
Copyright infringement is ethically and legally different from theft.
If I make an identical copy of a chair, or a videogame, nobody loses their chair of videogame.
I know, which is why I specifed that his is what they claim. The same people who say that piracy is theft will pull stunts like these.