Legal Virals

[Kasreyn]

...was only put in there because of this sort of thing. To me, it's only evidence that the RIAA and its ilk have already altered the language of the debate to their whim. The proper name for the crime, under U.S. Law, is still "copyright infringement", and that is the name which should be used when discussing it; certainly when discussing it in a legal sense. The U.S., after all, still DOES have the crime of TRUE piracy (attacking a ship at sea) on the books; it's unneccessarily confusing to use the same name for two utterly different crimes.

To those who say "piracy" is used for brevity as opposed to "copyright infringement": then why not use "filesharing" instead? Same # of syllables as "piracy"! Difference: one demonizes the criminals in question, the other one makes their crime seem lighter. Demonization is the goal.

Since both terms (piracy and copyright infringement) seem to be acceptable to you, I beg you to use the original one, the one which the crime was originally called, rather than the later one which was brought into use to demonize what is at worst a minor criminal act akin to petty theft.

-Kasreyn