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<blockquote data-quote="Kalanyr" data-source="post: 1544619" data-attributes="member: 190"><p>Okay for the rest of this post I will assume that theft represents removal of an idea, rather than (or perhaps as well as, since otherwise we end up with the ridiculous case where physical removing the book from the shop but not reading it is a lesser (or non-) crime than removing the idea, which is absurd because it prevents sale to another) physical material since this is what you are claiming. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But a library purchases maybe 3 or 4 copies of a book and the idea is distributed to 100s of people. Surely the 100's who have not been paid for are committing theft of the idea ? If not it leads to the situation where I have the right to lend something I buy to as many people as I want, and from there one has to ask what's wrong with copying it ? They'll see the idea anyway , and I don't know a lot of people that read the same book more than once (with a few exceptions (textbooks,or something like the Lord of the Rings)) and hence the bookshop has lost any potential sales already. </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Ah but you see, I have removed the material that was there for sale without paying for it, which you say is what theft is, so by that defintion (yours) I have stolen it. And I can choose to write it down and distribute it. The idea has been taken, exactly the same in the above case it just has not been physically reproduced (yet), if we go by your definition that duplication of ideas is theft than I have committed it, because the idea is now in my head. </p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Fair enough, I was just positing a possible claim based on earlier replies about libraries.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kalanyr, post: 1544619, member: 190"] Okay for the rest of this post I will assume that theft represents removal of an idea, rather than (or perhaps as well as, since otherwise we end up with the ridiculous case where physical removing the book from the shop but not reading it is a lesser (or non-) crime than removing the idea, which is absurd because it prevents sale to another) physical material since this is what you are claiming. But a library purchases maybe 3 or 4 copies of a book and the idea is distributed to 100s of people. Surely the 100's who have not been paid for are committing theft of the idea ? If not it leads to the situation where I have the right to lend something I buy to as many people as I want, and from there one has to ask what's wrong with copying it ? They'll see the idea anyway , and I don't know a lot of people that read the same book more than once (with a few exceptions (textbooks,or something like the Lord of the Rings)) and hence the bookshop has lost any potential sales already. Ah but you see, I have removed the material that was there for sale without paying for it, which you say is what theft is, so by that defintion (yours) I have stolen it. And I can choose to write it down and distribute it. The idea has been taken, exactly the same in the above case it just has not been physically reproduced (yet), if we go by your definition that duplication of ideas is theft than I have committed it, because the idea is now in my head. Fair enough, I was just positing a possible claim based on earlier replies about libraries. [/QUOTE]
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