Comment Re:Whatever The Party says (Score 1) 645
Kindle customers have, in effect, been sold "stolen" property. . . If you buy a stolen ipod, it can get confiscated by the police.
IGNORANCE IS NOT STRENGTH
IDEAS ARE NOT PROPERTY
Taking an iPod from somebody deprives that person of an iPod. Having an extra copy of a book does not take anything from anyone. Purchasing unauthorised copies is neither equivalent to nor even similar to stealing.
RHETORIC IS NOT REALITY
UNSHAVEN HIPPIES SPEAKING IN TONGUES ARE NOT THE MESSIAH
You are taking the right to copy an original work from the artist who created it. You are depriving him or her of the right bestowed to him by law, just as freedom of speech is bestowed unto him or her by law.
You are taking the fruits of someone else's labor, the hours and days and years of study and work that culminated in the creation they put out on the free market for sale.
That the tools used didn't create a physical object you can fold, spindle, or mutilate means little. R&D costs are the bulk of most sophisticated manufactured goods, whether physical or ephemeral.
