A friend of mine showed me this picture. Handy guide to those who wanna know what piracy is. (Don’t know who did it in the first place, so sorry for lack of credits. On the other hand, I’m sure he understand that I wasn’t stealing the picture, I was just pirating it…)
Juuso Hietalahti: "Well, they are not breaking a law (you won’t go to jail for selling virtual goodies) if you sell stuff, so it’s not in our hands to..." 10 hours 15 minutes ago. 
scyle: "As far as i know it is against the rules of World of Warcraft to sell an Account. To bypass these rules, the account seller say, that the person who buys the..." 10 hours 33 minutes ago. Vince: "#3 is unfortunately all too common. Especially when buying games online, you get bombarded with additional fees and taxes after going through the hassle of..." 12 hours 38 minutes ago. 
Jeep: "I really hate stuff like that too. It seems to obvious that it’s a bad idea to make it work like that, so who on earth would decide to do that? I am using..." 16 hours 0 minutes ago. Anonymous: "It’s a GREAT language and yeah you can use other IDEs that are free." 20 hours 15 minutes ago. 
Josh Klint: "I really recommend BLIde over the default IDE. Although if you need to do any heavy debugging the default IDE is better because you can go to the error..." 1 day 4 hours ago. 
Sargon: "Juuso, it is true that it doesn’t help the consumer, but it might help google or some coorporation. For instance, maybe google don’t want a..." 1 day 7 hours ago. Juuso Hietalahti: "That’s great to hear psycho - good luck with the the probable job :) and thanks for sharing this here." 1 day 10 hours ago. 
psycho: "“Ask for the job” I did this three weeks ago. I sent email to local ‘big gaming company’. Two days later, I went there for an..." 1 day 11 hours ago.
August 29th, 2008 at 9:29 am
The issue with piracy is not physical property, its intellectual property and in regards to intellectual property, it is sort of theft.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
:)
August 29th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I think this picture “proofs” that fake money should also be legalized… right?…
August 29th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
@ Temposaur
Why not? :-) All the problems in the world could be solved if poor families could just print cash when they needed it.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Technically…. I think this picture doesn’t say that piracy shouldn’t happen… or that pirating is okay. It’s simply saying that piracy isn’t theft. ;)
Good idea Ben :P
August 29th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I’m sure that defense will stand up in court.
August 30th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Genius.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:38 am
People, you miss the point. In theft, the use of the item or information is no longer available to the original owner.
In piracy, the item is still available to the original owner.
Piracy deprives the owner of controlling how his/her product is used in the market place.
If I sneak into the back of a movie theater without paying and watch a movie, very few would consider that as theft in the normal sense. However, we all know that my actions are still illegal because it deprives the theater owner the right to determine who gets to watch their film. And I’m sure if I pay them they would let me watch.
So Piracy is more related to illegal access/trespassing than it is to theft in the everyday use of the theses words
August 31st, 2008 at 1:46 am
LOL @ the fake money idea, good one. I’m gonna start printing it tomorrow.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:19 pm
So, there is no such a thing as identity theft, only identity pirating.
Unless… the guy who steals your identity also kills you. O.O
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Sargon, There’s actually is no such thing as “identity theft”. When people say “identity theft” they mean to say “fraud”. But “identity theft” makes it seem like it’s the person being impersonated’s problem, not the bank’s problem.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:15 am
Wow… I never thought about piracy as counterfeiting.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Updated picture :)