Re: US Department of Justice forces people to buy Microsoft Windows
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It's theft.
You wouldn't steal a VCR. You wouldn't steal a Car....
^Kidding, but isn't that how the commercials for this stuff go?
Why shouldn't theft be jailable?
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Copyright infringement, while definitely illegal, is not theft. Nothing of value had been taken from its owner, except under the questionable assumption that the people who downloaded the infringing material would have bought it were it not available for free.
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