Piracy is theft
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"Piracy is theft" was a slogan used by UK non-profit organization FAST
(Federation Against Software Theft).http://www.ntk.net/2002/11/29/elspa.gifhttp://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/antipiracy.htm It was first used in the 1980s and has since then been used by other similar organisations such as MPAA
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Federation Against Software Theft
The Federation Against Software Theft is a not-for-profit organisation, formed in 1984 with the aim of eliminating copyright infringement of software in the UK. FAST was the world's first Anti-piracy organisation to work to protect the copyrights of software publishers...
(Federation Against Software Theft).http://www.ntk.net/2002/11/29/elspa.gifhttp://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/antipiracy.htm It was first used in the 1980s and has since then been used by other similar organisations such as MPAA
Motion Picture Association of America
The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. , originally the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America , was founded in 1922 and is designed to advance the business interests of its members...
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See also
- Property is theft!Property is theft!Property is theft! is a slogan coined by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his 1840 book What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government....
- Home Taping is Killing MusicHome Taping is Killing Music"Home Taping Is Killing Music" was the slogan of a 1980s anti-copyright infringement campaign by the British Phonographic Industry , a British music industry trade group. With the rise in cassette recorder popularity, the BPI feared that people being able to record music from the radio onto...
- You can click, but you can't hideYou can click, but you can't hideYou can click, but you can't hide is a publicity campaign run jointly by several international associations, most notably the MPA, the MPAA, and the GVU, as part of the larger "Respect Copyrights" campaign against peer-to-peer file sharing of motion pictures...
- Don't Copy That FloppyDon't Copy That FloppyDon’t Copy That Floppy was an anti-copyright infringement campaign run by the Software Publishers Association beginning in 1992. The video for the campaign, starring M. E. Hart as “MC Double Def DP,” was filmed at Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C...
- You Wouldn't Steal a Car