On 10/3/13 6:29 AM, mechanic wrote:
On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:44:48 +0200, Alias wrote:

Do you know the difference between take and use? I *can't* take the
software. I can only use a *copy*.

People are throwing around the term 'theft' as if it means using
something you don't 'own'; in he the UK at least the definition of
'theft' includes the term 'with the intention of permanently
depriving...'; thus there is no theft involved in copying a software
item for one's own use.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/...ition-of-theft

Are you not intentionally "permanently depriving" the author of Start8
the $4.99 USD when using a program without payment to the author? That
negates the stipulation of #2 under the Basic Definition of Theft.

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a commonly quoted
part of a dialogue in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in
which Juliet argues that the names of things do not matter, only what
things "are".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_rose...smell_as_sweet

Just because you aren't called a thief, legally, doesn't meant you
aren't one.


In legal terms you are perfectly entitled to do anything not
prohibited by law; morals don't come into it.

Morals are the basis for every law.

--
Ken

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