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Originally Posted by starrigger
I find it disingenuous to pretend that it is anything but stealing. It is the misappropriation of something that doesn't belong to you. Makes no difference whether it's digital or physical. "Stealing credit" would be another example of a nonphysical meaning.
I'm not talking about legal definitions, which may differ; I'm talking about ethics and morality. You take something that isn't yours. That's stealing.
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You are defining
Plagiarism when you are describing theft of intellectual property. For a current example, read on the issue raised by Calibre and Hamstersoft.
The issue is that Hamstersoft plagiarized Calibre code: used them without giving due recognition. The very definition of intellectual theft. Granted, piracy is wrong, we do not disagree on that, but piracy and plagiarism are two different things that have two different consequences.