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Originally Posted by Whistler
On the other way, I think copyright in digital age has also been abused - a book is copyrighted, but you can share your book by lending it to your friend and let him/her copy parts of it with a ink and pen. No one is called as "thief" or "pirate" for this. For software you even must buy multiple copy if you have multiple computers.
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Actually, you can't do that legally, unless you're at an institution with a special lisence - otherwise it's an infringment of copyright. You also can't record TV programs, or tape songs off the radio. But because so many people do it, it would cost more to crack down on it than is actually lost. CD and software copying/piracy, however, is a much bigger problem, and the loss is greater than the cost of fighting it. It was the same at one point with pirated videos, but they were mostly successful in preventing it.