[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Thu Jun 12 17:04:57 UTC 2008

In Chinese language, we use "剽竊" (Piao Qie) to describe the action of piracy
without attribution.
I just look up some online dictionary. 剽 could be translated as to steal or
to rob, and 竊 means the action of theft.

For a man educated under the Chinese culture, to call the action of
Baidupedia as theft is not violating the common sense.

Regards,
Titan

2008/6/13 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:

> Brian McNeil wrote:
> > Copyright infringement is *NOT* theft.
> >
> > When you infringe someone's copyright you have duplicated what they have,
> > not taken it away from them.
> >
> > For this very reason, the law views the two offences differently. If you
> > equate copyright infringement with theft, you've been drinking the RIAA
> > kool-aid.
> >
> I think that "theft" was an unfortunate choice of words. A different
> word could be used without diminishing the importance of Baidu's
> improprieties.
>
> Ec
>
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