MPAA: Movie Piracy Downright Un-American
Found on Deadline on Thursday, 07 April 2011
MPAA vice president Michael O'Leary made the battle against movie pirates sound downright patriotic.
"The key foundation of American industry, the expectation that hard work and innovation is rewarded, is imperiled when thieves, whether online or on the street, are allowed to steal America's creative products and enrich themselves along the way.".
Ah, so you're only a patriotic sheep as long as you don't share. Truly what the industry wants: "This is mine. Mine mine mine. I will never share even if there won't be any loss for me". That aside, I don't know how many billion times it has been said: sharing is not theft. You simply get an identical copy. The key word is "copy". Nobody would say that making a photocopy is theft. You put one sheet of paper in, you get two papers out. Also, if you want to be really picky, you could argue that America itself was founded on theft, because the land was owned by others when the settlers came.