Why copying isn’t theft.

Stuart Green’s op-ed in the NY Times (When Stealing Isn’t Stealing), he shows why, in economic terms, copying digital files isn’t exactly theft. The Freakonomics post sums it up in two sentences: “If a thief steals your car, he has it, and you don’t. But if someone illegally downloads your song, he has it - but so do you.”

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