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Old 12-28-2007, 10:27 PM   #117
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
If I steal a physical book, I am not stealing it from its creator; I am stealing from its owner. If I steal a file, I am not stealing it from its creator; I am stealing from its owner.

Thus, copyright infringement is not stealing.
if you steal a file, it depends what is in that file as to who you are stealing it from. You could be stealing it from both the owner and the creator who could be the same person or different people. An ebook is very much a physical entity. It has substance. It is every bit as real as a pbook, just in a different form.
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