[free-sklyarov] Neutralizing the Stealing Meme

[Izel Sulam]

Some good thoughts here.

I think we need to attack the stealing meme on the scarcity angle. Namely:

When you steal something, the original owner no longer has it. When you 
steal his
car, he no longer has his car. When you steal his couch, he no longer has his
couch. But when someone shares his music with you, he has his music, and you
have your music, too. We never run out of copies of music. You can always make
new copies of music. How can you steal something that never runs out?

This explanation moves the debate from the simplistic and misleading 
context of
stealing into the legitimate context of copyright law, where we can start 
debating
the need for reform in copyright law.
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