www/philosophy words-to-avoid.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       13/05/26 22:27:17

Modified files:
        philosophy     : words-to-avoid.html 

Log message:
        Minor clarification.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.164&r2=1.165

Patches:
Index: words-to-avoid.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html,v
retrieving revision 1.164
retrieving revision 1.165
diff -u -b -r1.164 -r1.165
--- words-to-avoid.html 7 May 2013 04:30:04 -0000       1.164
+++ words-to-avoid.html 26 May 2013 22:27:16 -0000      1.165
@@ -737,14 +737,15 @@
 
 <h4 id="Theft">&ldquo;Theft&rdquo;</h4>
 <p>
-Copyright apologists often use words like &ldquo;stolen&rdquo; and
-&ldquo;theft&rdquo; to refer to copyright infringement.  This is spin,
-but they would like you to take it for objective truth.</p>
+The supporters of a too-strict, repressive form of copyright often use
+words like &ldquo;stolen&rdquo; and &ldquo;theft&rdquo; to refer to
+copyright infringement.  This is spin, but they would like you to take
+it for objective truth.</p>
 <p>
 Under the US legal system, copyright infringement is not theft.  Laws
 about theft are not applicable to copyright infringement.  The
-copyright apologists are making an appeal to authority&mdash;and
-misrepresenting what authority says.</p>
+supporters of repressive copyright are making an appeal to
+authority&mdash;and misrepresenting what authority says.</p>
 <p>
 To refute them, you can point to this
 <a 
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/04/harper-lee-kill-mockingbird-copyright";>
@@ -830,7 +831,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2013/05/07 04:30:04 $
+$Date: 2013/05/26 22:27:16 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>