No. Leaking is taking something from someone and releasing it without the owner's permission. Hence taking something away from someone. Plus, how do you copy something you don't know, and it isn't considered stealing?
No its not.
By leaking it publicly its copyright infringement. The key element of stealing or theft is withholding the item from the rightful owner - not you gaining it. As piracy doesnt prevent the rightful owner from still keeping what is theirs its not stealing or theft and never has been. (This is why a number of anti-piracy adverts had to be changed. They used to finish ...its theft. They now finish ...its illegal. Which it is.)
You could argue that you were stealing their money, but as they never had it and there is no proof that they ever would, you would fail.
As an example, if you made an exact replica of your mates car you wouldnt be stealing his car, nor would you be stealing Honda (or whoevers) car. You would be infriging on patents etc.
By the store releasing it early its probably nothing more than a breach of contract.
Anyway wahts important is that yafaze was a great site with loads of help for even a complete novice and never any nastyness - at least that i encountered. It will be sorely missed.
i don't even know why this still needs to be explained, but you sure did a good job of doing it. it's funny how with all this crazy stuff going on in the world economy and ppl are still spending money on their video games while their neibors loosing their house. i don't think nintendo is gonna be hurting anytime soon and it forces them to do a better job of securing their products by making them harder to copy, that's gotta be a department of ppl right there who otherwise may not have jobs. i just think the whole morality thing is stupid. there are a whole lot more horrible things going on in the world, we just wanna play some games and can't afford to buy everything all the time.
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pirateplunder said:
QUOTE(Omega Knight @ Nov 14 2009, 02:21 PM)
No. Leaking is taking something from someone and releasing it without the owner's permission. Hence taking something away from someone. Plus, how do you copy something you don't know, and it isn't considered stealing?