New Study: 70% Of People Find ‘Piracy’ Socially Acceptable
2nd March 2011
Which is perfectly reasonable, if you think about it.
Most people give that artificial construct of the law, ‘intellectual property’, all the respect it deserves – 0%. Calling it ‘piracy’ merely debases the language — real pirates steal stuff; when somebody steals stuff, the original owner is deprived of its use. If somebody copies a file, the original owner is not deprived of it’s use, therefore IT ISN’T STEALING, no matter how many legislators can be bought by lobbyists to say that it is … and people of common sense (at least 70% of the population, it says here) understand that.