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Tyranthraxus posted...

darkstar4221 posted...

To all those who oppose piracy in every single way, that you believe intellectual property is a legitimate property right. Let's say hypothetically the copyright duration was 10 years, so all nes/snes/genesis/psx/ps2/sega saturn/dreamcast/neo-geo/xbox games are in the public domain. If you pirate a video game that is no longer protected by copyright, is that still stealing?

No. As I said earlier, theft it's taking something that doesn't belong to you without permission. If something is considered public domain, then that is permission to copy it. You fundamentally cannot pirate a public domain media.

You can still plagiarize it however.

But as someone said earlier copyright violation and theft isn't technically the same thing. Since most content is still protected by copyright, all the roms and emulation I have of older video games would be considered stealing since I never bought the original copy.