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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
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Umm... copying things is quite legal, as long as you keep the copies to yourself. I never said that copying musics, movies, etc. was illegal. As long as you have a legal license to own the material, you can make as many copies for personal use as you want. I said that acquiring copies made by someone else for something that you have no legal license to use is theft. [/quote]
Actually, it is illegal to make a copy of many games now. See, you're allowed to make a copy for personl use, but to do that you need to break the copy protection. And gee, breaking the copy protection is illegal..thanks to the DMCA.
And no, copyright violation is not theft. Not from a legal point of view and I don't think from an ethical point of view. In some cases its not as bad (ex: downloading songs you already own, but aren't in a format you can access) in some cases it is worse (ex: downloading a file then sharing it. Theft occurs once, this can spread exponentially)