What does this have to do with copyright? This is stealing pure and simple. If you walk out of a museum with one of its art pieces, you're not going to get arrested for copyright infringement.
What does this have to do with copyright? This is stealing pure and simple. If you walk out of a museum with one of its art pieces, you're not going to get arrested for copyright infringement.
What did he steal? He was receiving the binary data anyways when he streams it on his devices. How does him just keeping that binary data on his phone/computer instead of deleting it qualify as "theft"?
What if I walk out of a museum having taken a high-quality photograph of a photography exhibit? What have I stolen, then?
If you go to a country, steal all the art, create a museum in your country, make money out of it, how would you call it ?
The British Museum
But it's not like that now, is it? I created an identical copy of the art piece and provide it for free to enjoyers of art all over the world.
Being this much of a bootlicker for mega corps under the guise of "law abiding" is dumb. It's also and incredibly disingenuous argument. Stealing a physical thing is one thing, bit perfect copying of a digital item removes it from nobody's possession. And since I don't believe that companies have the right to infinite money for having stolen enough from previous endeavors to buy up the rights to things people like, taking it in any way you can is lawful regardless of if it's legal.