Earlier today, pirates were saddened when they tried to reach their haven, The Pirate Bay.
For a couple of hours, The Pirate Bay went offline, globally, including proxy sites linked to it.
The site is back up now, and there was little word on the downtime, so it can most likely be attributed to technical difficulties.
There had been a rumor that ISPs were blocking the site again, ... [ read the full article ]
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The reason the matter "is difficult to compare with physical stuff", is because it's not the same thing.
Let's review:
- Digital piracy, while arguably wrong/immoral, is not a crime. It's defined as a civil violation (copyright infringement), and is subject to tort law.
- Selling an unauthorized copy is copyright fraud, a crime.
- Copying money is specifically defined as a felony under criminal law, and so is the use of said counterfeit money. Your example is deeply flawed.
tl;dr? Fine. US law says copyright infringement is not a crime. Using anything as an example or metaphor that IS a crime, automatically fails. Please stop. Moral is not necessarily legal, any more than immoral is necessarily illegal. You're harming your own argument by trying to argue for a false equivalency.
P.S. I refer to US law because that's what I'm most familiar with, but most nations with a legal system worth crap are very careful to keep the divide between tort and criminal law.
