 Permalink for comment 451308 RE[4]: Correction by ricegf on Sat
27th Nov 2010 15:34 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Correction" Member
since:  In criminal law, "theft" is defined as "the dishonest
taking of property belonging to another person with the
intention of depriving the owner permanently of its possession"
(free dictionary) and "the felonious taking and removing of
personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of
it" (Webster's).  This just doesn't sound like what's happening
here; Big Media is not being deprived of any personal property
a'tall. IANAL, but I believe you meant to criticize "copyright
infringement", which is a very different thing.  Copyright (in
the USA) is a privilege granted to an author by constitutional
authority for a limited time for the explicit purpose of
promoting science and the useful arts. Property rights, by
contrast, are considered God-given and inalienable and cannot be
legally removed except by due process under the law; they never
expire (for example).  Copyrig