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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yes....but....there's way more to this whole issue than Legal Definitions.
This thread was started by asking the question "is it UNETHICAL..."
that has little to do with official legal definitions.
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But don't you agree it is good to get one of the issues that inevitably raises it's head in this kind of discussion settled? As far as the legal framework in the US is concerned copyright infringement is not theft. There may of course be rhetorical reasons for continuing to call copyright infringement theft - but I think that just serves to confuse the issue. Having clarified the legal definition we can then, if we wish, go on to discuss the ethical issues involved in copyright infringement - without being encumbered by the argument about whether it is theft or not.