PIRACY!

[nadoom]

Why is copying games called piracy?

it has nothing to do with swashbuckling or walking the plank.. is it a way for the industries to demonise people who copy copyrighted stuff with a bad word?

I am not boarding a ship and stealing nothing all, just duplicating a set of bits.

piracy should be reclaimed as a name for pirates (on the high seas)

and a new term for copiers should be created.. any ideas?

[odin]

Okay...let's call it 'stealing' then. That would make pirates thieves instead of pirates, then again pirates are a specialized class of seaborne thieves so we might as well be calling them pirates.

[nadoom]

i agree that it is a form of theft. but theiving is taking something from some one.. is that the same as duplication?

[Wain]

Theft and copyright infringement are different things in scope and nature.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Yeeeehaw! Wain's back! :-) :banana:

[whabang]

Hey, Wain! Long time no see!
You're right, of course: Copyright infringement has nothing to do with thieft.