Originally Posted by
Abe_Froman
You'll notice that if you read the article, every example given involved a person using copyrighted content for personal profit. I don't have an issue labeling that as theft.
But we need to make a distinction between enriching ones self, and being able to listen to a song you weren't planning on buying anyway. One is a victimless 'crime' and one is not.
That page defines IP theft:
Intellectual property is any material or idea that is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, or trade secret laws. This type of property includes client lists, poems, mechanical inventions, and logos. Intellectual property theft occurs when a person knowingly takes, uses, misappropriates, or otherwise steals property that is protected under intellectual property laws.
Give me all your paychecks. There is no victim.