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From: Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net>
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Subject: Re: instructor's solutions manual for Digital Control & State Variable Methods 2nd Ed by Madan Gopal
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Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:39:08 -0700
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Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> writes:

> On 2011-08-02, Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Copyright infringement is not theft BY LAW and BY DEFINITION. Look it up.
>
> There is a difference between the meaning of words in formal settings
> (i.e. a court room) and normal spoken language. In normal spoken
> language, theft means "taking something that is not yours". Guess what,
> that is *exactly* what copyright infringement is about.

Copyright infringers are not taking a thing, they are making a copy of a
thing.  The owner of the object still has it, so it can't have been
stolen.

-- Patrick