[Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

[Fred Bauder]

> On 07/09/2013 08:37 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>> How is that not theft that we are facilitating?
>
> Because "theft", is to deprive, temporarily or absolutely, the owner of
> it, or a person who has a special property or interest in it, of the
> thing or of his property or interest in it.
>
> In some jurisdiction, linking to sites that play fast and loose with
> Copyright /may/, in certain circumstances, be facilitating copyright
> infringement.  It certainly isn't "theft".
>
> (I am not saying the latter is okay -- but that calling copyright
> infringement "theft" is inflammatory rhetoric and intellectually
> dishonest, at best).
>
> -- Marc

Interesting notion that plain talk is "inflammatory" and "dishonest." How
is deliberate copyright infringement is not theft? Why are we the
pirates' little helpers?

Fred