Downloading is not theft!

"Taking something without paying is stealing." -imthesponge (621107) writes: on Friday May 28, @07:25PM (#32383976)

And the excellent response by Jah-Wren Ryel (80510) writes: on Friday May 28, @07:43PM (#32384206)
"Then hollywood and all the other publishers are the biggest thieves in the world.
Why? Because of retroactive copyright extensions.
Because of those extensions the publishers have stolen millions of works from the public domain.
Works that were created and released under very specific copyright terms that guaranteed their release into the public domain.
If they didn't agree to those terms, they should never have published in the first place.
But instead, they hired lobbyists to steal all of those works from every single citizen.
That is theft on a scale hundreds of thousands of times greater than 'internet piracy' could ever achieve, even if every single citizen pirated everything they ever watched.


So if you want to talk about stealing you should be focusing on the biggest thieves in the world bar none not these piddly little downloaders."

I agree 100%.