It’s way worse than other illegitimate forms of property.
If a corporation obtains a factory through dubious means, you can still attempt to have some very limited amount of empathy for them, because at least physical resources are limited.
With intellectual property none of this applies, ideas are not scarce. If I think of an idea, I don’t prevent you from thinking the same idea. If I play a Nintendo game on my hard drive, Nintendo doesn’t lose a copy of the same game on their end (you might argue it’s bad that ideas aren’t scarce though, and honestly, they might have deserved to lose their copy of the game)
Equating all copyright infringement to physical theft is just fallacious.
Copyright is private property applied to the intellectual commons.
It’s way worse than other illegitimate forms of property.
If a corporation obtains a factory through dubious means, you can still attempt to have some very limited amount of empathy for them, because at least physical resources are limited.
With intellectual property none of this applies, ideas are not scarce. If I think of an idea, I don’t prevent you from thinking the same idea. If I play a Nintendo game on my hard drive, Nintendo doesn’t lose a copy of the same game on their end (you might argue it’s bad that ideas aren’t scarce though, and honestly, they might have deserved to lose their copy of the game)
Equating all copyright infringement to physical theft is just fallacious.
Sure. Ctrl-c, ctrl-v shows how silly copyright is. It’s antithetical to the entire function of computers.