21 Aug
2015
21 Aug
'15
11:09 a.m.
That's why I speak out against attempts to paint
copyright violation as other things, such as theft: it's an appeal to emotions, trying
to equate "thing I want people to oppose" with "very different thing I
expect people already consider bad". It's a fundamentally dishonest bit of
oratory.
I write for a (meager) living. If someone were to take my work and
decide for themselves that it should be online for free, then they ARE
stealing from me. That is reality, not the semantics of case law.