response 45 of 72:

May 5 16:14 UTC 2004

> (178) #40/44:    David Brodbeck (gull)  Wed, May  5, 2004 (09:04)
>  Are you arguing that intellectual property has no value?  Or just that
>  "theft" is the wrong word?

In an argument it's traditional to respond to what your opponent wrote
rather than try to deduce telepathically what he meant and argue against
that.  If you want to have a useful argument on this topic, don't start
by assuming that anyone who doesn't agree with you 100% is an "information
wants to be free" Slashbot.

I think I've quite clearly limited my objections to the misuse of the
term "theft."  I don't see how I could have been any clearer, nor do I
see how you could deduce from what I have written that I am "arguing that
intellectual property has no value."  Clearly it has value -- it is 
bought and sold, is it not?  The term "intellectual property" is a bit
of a misnomer, though, in my opinion.

Allow me to ask my question again:  in the infringing case from the
two scenarios I outlined in a previous response, *what* has been stolen?