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**myhackingtosh_ws** · 10-28-2005, 12:13 PM

DB, hey butt in all you like. I think your point is valid. My response is this: it may be a theft of some kind. But it's not the same kind of theft as when I take your car and you don't have it any more. Whether you have lost money if I copy your CD/whatever rather depends on whether I would have bought it if copying were not an option. If I wouldn't, you haven't lost a thing.

Sin, I am doubtful that the law as it stands is really satisfactory. Nowadays we're heading into stuff like making it illegal for people to back up their own media for their personal security. That's just foolish, IMO. If I pay a lot of money for some software, I want to be able to lay my hand on another copy if the first CD set gets scratched. I do *not* want to have to write to the company explaining what happened, and wait for them to send me another set.

10-28-2005, 12:13 PM	#11
myhackingtosh_ws Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 493 Senior Member	DB, hey butt in all you like. I think your point is valid. My response is this: it may be a theft of some kind. But it's not the same kind of theft as when I take your car and you don't have it any more. Whether you have lost money if I copy your CD/whatever rather depends on whether I would have bought it if copying were not an option. If I wouldn't, you haven't lost a thing. Sin, I am doubtful that the law as it stands is really satisfactory. Nowadays we're heading into stuff like making it illegal for people to back up their own media for their personal security. That's just foolish, IMO. If I pay a lot of money for some software, I want to be able to lay my hand on another copy if the first CD set gets scratched. I do not want to have to write to the company explaining what happened, and wait for them to send me another set.
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