[Bush2000]

Don't lie to yourself, either. Violation of copyright is a crime, but it is not theft of property. Copyright is a legal right separate from property rights -- there is no such thing as "intellectual property".

The courts disagree with your interpretation.

[Sloth]

On several issues, in fact, and they are wrong on every one.

[bvw]

Some do and some don't. The money side is the expansive rights area and we have to wait till that argument out of money overrreaches and exhausts itself -- which it now may have had. The rights of individuals are hard to argue against such money, and no barrister group has seemed yet to put a class action together to counter the tide of the IP polished shoes. The chip manufacturers have raised the most complaint, yet they are not a good surrogate for individuals and have and will go along with the IP monopolists if the money flows to them as well.