[naive]

Piracy is not Theft, It's Piracy. 

I'm a pirate, but your graphic just is false. Sure, no physical object is being removed, this does not mean nothing is stolen. If the asset of meaningful value is the control over copywrited information, then uncontrolled access to the information removes this asset from the original copywrite holder. You are literally removing the control of the information from its owners.  I'll use this analogy again, if I were to copy your girlfriends nudes without permission, I have stolen information from you. You no longer control the rights of who gets to view that information and it can be spread without your control and you no longer "own" exclusive control.

to my knowledge there are no laws that tell me that if i have something on ny computer like a cdkey for a game if some one takes that im shit out of luck and there is nothing the company i bought it from can do either so tech i have just proved your theory wrong :/

to my knowledge there is no law out there saying if i mod my ps3 or some other consle they can come break my door down all this does is void my warrenty

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what im getting at is people dont have control over a product that has been already purchased :/ if some one buys a cd and wants to upload it to share it so be it there is no law out there to control that if so then if i made a game that i didnt want shared yet some how some one got it then shared it if they didnt take the orignal its not stealing


Quote: if you dont take the original its not stealing!

You are not purchasing the music itself though, you are purchasing the rights to listen to the music in one specific format. The same goes for video games, you have purchased the rights for a user to use the game, the serial key is just a tool to enforce this policy. You don't actually purchase the game, you purchase the rights to play it. By sharing the information, you are taking on a role that you in no way, shape, or form have legitimately paid for the rights to use as you have only paid the 'single user' license for that information.

Hardware mods are a different issue because you are actually buying the physical hardware, software/media is a much different beast because you are not buying anything, you are paying for the privilege of accessing information in a certain way.