Angry Nerds: Copyright Theft Is Bad, When It Happens To People We Like

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Copying isn't theft. At best, it's "infringement". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_%28198...

Please don't try to bring back the false-to-fact concept of "intellectual property". Independent invention happens all the time. Who gets to own such an idea? The first person to think of it? No, the first person to file on. Morally, that's just rubbish. Wait, the person who thought the hardest should get ownership. Bah, humbug.

I think Paul Carr is trying to make the point that the anger in the Curebit case is hypocritical since we (the big 'we') defend similar behavior when done to Hollywood or the music behavior.

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