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So if I hack into a few servers and get all your personal data like name, address, credit card info, social security numbers, family members, etc. and "copy" your identity for my own perosnal use it's all okay because it's not "identity theft" it's just "identity copying"?
it's not the fact that the information was copied, but how it is used that makes it theft. the initial action in itself, though illegal as it infringes on another's rights, is not actually theft. the illegality is in how you obtain the information and what you do with it. ie stealing trash/hacking and buying crap/opening credit accounts.
Copying is stealing. It's not very hard to understand.
do we need the picture ?
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don't get me wrong, i don't pirate. i support companies i appreciate and if anything am guilty of supporting companies i shouldn't have. but that doesn't mean it's as simple as "pirates are thieves. period." sure it's wrong, but the effect is debatable and the extent to which devs/pubs go to prevent it borders on unreasonable.imo.
and i personally don't believe for a minute that there is a hard line correlation between piracy and sales, and i believe that devs would like to see the pc as restricted as consoles, and if we let them go each step further without any of us speaking up, they will get their way.