Re: "My dad is a pirate."

[Dustin Cook]

mark.kent.is.owned@gmail.com wrote in
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> PIRATE Andrew Halliwell (spike1) spi...@freenet.co.uk wrote:
>> In the garbage domain of comp.os.linux.advocacy,
>> Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> didnst hastily scribble thusly:
>>
>> > Mark Kent the bastard wrote:
>> > [...]
>> >> Canada and France both spring to mind as countries where a
>> >> pre-payment is made on the assumption that "copyright violation"
>> >> will occur. Presumably, as one has already paid, it's reasonable
>> >> to make such copies.  Unless, of course, the tax was not
>> >> legitimate in the first place?
>>
>> > Uh silly Kent. Canada has a blank media levy (not a tax) for
>> > "private copying."
>>
>> > http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/info/act-e.html#rid-33760
>>
>> The Levy is the bad one. A tax goes to the government, the levy goes
>> to the industry. So why is he silly?
> 
> He is silly because he does "family" business with his boyfriend Roy
> Schestowitz. But in your piracy-land, everything should be okay, right
> Andrew Halliwell the pirate?
> 
>> The levy is a tax
> 
> Shouldn't matter to you. You are a pirate and a thief. You are not
> required to pay levy or tax or anything else.


If he buys blank media, he may already be paying a special tax or levy. I 
do. Please explain to me how duplicating something is indeed, theft. As I 
was taught, theft deprives the original owner of access to it. IE: If I 
thiefed (hehehe) your car, you wouldn't have it anymore. If I copied it, 
you still have yours. How have I stolen yours then?

> Go back to stealing and end up behind bars.

Intellectual copyright infringement isn't theft.
 



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