If you look at the copyright rules, you'll see that monetary gain is not necessary for infringement to occur. You can, in fact, spend or lose money, and it's still infringement.

"I love people here who are either in denial or minimizing the act of piracy."

"Ok, technically this isn't the tort of theft or conversion. I still think that, morality aside, the basic meaning of the word "steal" can still apply, since you may be causing economic loss to the copyright holder. What they seem to be up in arms about is not the file itself but the fact that you didn't buy it from…

"But is like saying that the people you distributed would have definitely see a rerun with the commercial breaks so they would count it as a commercial loss, not like they would have recorded it on a dvr and just skip the advertising, I understand hbo because you`re paying for the channel specifically so they see the…

"But if someone's primary means of earning income (for argument's sake) comes from selling that intellectual property, and you deprive them of income, isn't that,in effect, stealing that income from them? "

"Identity theft, for example, doesn't preclude the person whose identity it is from using that identity (to sign up for credit cards, etc.)"

The infringement with bittorent comes from the distributing, not necessarily the downloading.

The use of the term "cromulent" embiggens us all.

Theft involves removing the ability of the "owner" to access or use property. Copyright infringement involves ignoring someone else's rights, but you're not affecting their access to their property.

Actually, it's not simply "copying," either. It's copyright infringement. Copying can, in fact, be "fair use" and non-infringing.

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Point taken.

Grammatical nitpck - the term is not a contraction of "explosives." The term is "plosive," as in "bilabial plosives" made with b and p sounds. No apostrophe is needed.

You know the best place to "ride out a fever"? At home, in bed.

I've been doing this for years. But I didn't learn it from my mother. I learned it from a guy I knew after we'd both graduated from college. I think my wife was impressed by the idea, though, when we were dating.

You're right in your assessment of the problem. You're way off in your absolutist solution.

If they need my attention, they're usually not getting it. I'm typically flipping through Skymall during the safety announcements. The instructions haven't changed, and, by the time they're making announcements, I've already found the emergency exits on the safety card.

I've never had a flight attendant actually verify if my "device" was off, regardless of what it was. I've watched flight attendants watch me using my phone before I slip it in my shirt pocket, and they've never checked to make sure it was off. It could have been on still.

The best battery saving utility I installed was CM7. Credit probably goes entirely to the extended control CM7 provides over the brightness level of the display.

"First off, if you have a credit card and you plan on paying it off right away, layaway is probably not a good option."