Copying Is Not Theft - Official Version

Our free culture anthem gets a fabulous arrangement by Nik Phelps. Vocals by Connie Champagne. Animation and song by Nina Paley.

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Film & Animation

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• bunny
• bunnies
• bicycle
• culture libre
• freedom

[ASHISH67]

This song song should be played in board room meetings of RIAA,MPAA. for maximum trolling effect

[123machet]

@lithium2370 Wrong, they would like it. Nina Paley would probably prefer it if you link to this or embed it since it adds views but I think the main idea is to just spread this.

[LordCHull]

@LordCHull But it can also be a bitch.....its awful when fair use is not recognized!

[LordCHull]

It discourages creation if everyone just "copied" it.

Hell the anime industry is dying because it's easier to just watch it online than pay $30 for a series, but if it continues less animes will be produced with a smaller budget and distribution in the US will stop entirely.

So copy right laws are good cause without them you wont have anymore of the things you love.

[3Z3K13L08]

This song just makes dumb people dumber.

Getting *ANYTHING* without paying for it (unless you made it or it was a gift bought by someone else), is theft. Yes the software developers or movie producers (etc.) don't loose their product, they instead loose your money that they sell their product for. If you don't get this simple idea they teach to 5 year olds at school, you are in need of serious help.

[xxFortunadoxx]

@BlackHairedGoon Once again, you've not actually proven that copying is stealing; you've merely asserted it. With a criterion of legality which is more problematic than ever.

Under your logic, if lawmakers decided that entering people's houses unwarranted and taking their stuff during a disaster was acceptable, it wouldn't change the fact that that act is stealing. The reason is that we derive our concept of theft from an ethical framework and not a legal framework.

That statement makes sense.

[BlackHairedGoon]

@xxFortunadoxx

Not stealing per se, but if you have an IQ of above 70, obtaining something without paying the developers is illegal, and at heart, along the lines of stealing.

I'm not sure what you were trying to say "assumes that my original intent was paying for the product", that doesn't make make 100% sense in the context in which it is used.

[xxFortunadoxx]

@BlackHairedGoon Your argument that it is stealing assumes that my original intent was paying for the product to begin with. You can not possibly know this as you would have to be able to read my mind, which means your argument is predicated on an assumption that you cannot prove.

Therefore, your argument is invalid and unsound.

[BlackHairedGoon]

Common sense should tell you it is stealing, you are getting the same piece of software for nothing, ie. Obtaining for example a vidya game without paying the developers.

[fergus247]

@ASHISH67 It should be on the internet! oh it is..

[darkblood626]

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[k6ka1]

@sleepydutchie somehow i agree with you...