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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Blah blah blah... copyright violation. Close enough... stealing a pbook would be theft but not a copyright violation. Downloading an ebook that you don't have permission to copy is a copyright violation. The result is the same, you took something that didn't belong to you without paying for it. "Theft" in general is close enough. Why must people split these hairs. Does it make you feel better to not call it theft?
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Calling it theft is a dishonest rhetorical trick.
The laws are motivated from totally different things. Intellectual property is not the same as physical property for the purpose of motivating what is moral and immoral.