"Oh no, not again..."
quoted from (not stolen, not infringing any copyright because of fair use) from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
This nonsense has to stop. Copying a movie, or using the internet on someone else's plan is not piracy is not theft.
Quoting from memory from my old Webster's dictionary which I have owned since I was a student a long time ago:
Theft: The act of taking property and removing it so that the rightful owner is no longer in possession of it.
Piracy: the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea.
Equating copyright infringement or violation of terms of service with theft or piracy is completely unwarranted messing with definitions of terms that have served their purpose for centuries.
Worse yet, the abuse of these terms in recent times misdirects people's attention away from the underlying flaws: artificial scarcity and the inability to enforce restrictions on use; you can not steal data (unless you steal the physical medium the data is stored on) nor can you pirate a service.
Making unauthorized copies or violating the terms of use of a service may be deemed objectionable but these actions are most certainly neither theft nor piracy.
This is probably the least-intelligent comment on this entire page. I would literally buy downvotes to bury this obnoxious stupidity into oblivion.
There's a significant contextual, moral and ethical difference between "exploring a lock" and "opening it and stealing whatever it's holding from you".
Also, you're another one who apparently needs to read the domain name of this site aloud to yourself again.
