Re: Strike

In article <tl79j3dm9n9802fn93dd0532ebg8kee99f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Kerry Weaver 
<Don't bother...send to usenet> says...
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 16:50:14 +0100, Pete B <xxxh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> >> I would suggest this then: spend about four years of your life
> >> creating a complex computer program, wait for someone to steal
> >> it, 
> >
> >You can't steal a program.
> Go to google and look up software piracy, copy protection,
> the many years long battle against it.
> 
> You can steal a program.   It's been going on for years.

No it hasn't. But copyright violations have been taking place for years, 
but its not stealing.

> >> 
> >> Computer software is intellectual property.
> >
> >I know what the law says. The law is wrong.

> How so?  It's the equivalant of walking into 
> Circuit City and stealing a flat screen Tv.

Not in the least, the tv is property and they have lost a sale. If 
someone illegaly copies the immaterial software which is not property it 
is not certain that a sale has lost - for this reason alone it should 
neither be called stealing nor property.