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Jimquisition
When Piracy Becomes Theft

| 6 Feb 2012 17:00
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Piracy isn't theft, right? It's copyright infringement, yes? These statements aren't wrong, but they're not always correct. Not when we talk about a certain type of piracy that is most certainly theft, and deserves all the indignity that such a term implies. The just and fair Jim Sterling shall share the wisdom of his judgement.

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Jim Sterling is the reviews editor for Destructoid.com and a game media gun-for-hire who appears regularly at GamePro, GameFront, GamesRadar and pretty much everywhere else. He has a tendency of making the Internet very angry at him, but he's alright sometimes.