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Originally Posted by Shaggy
So are theft and infringement (granted not as extreme as the two I mentioned).
The main reason society considers theft a criminal offense is not because the individual ends up getting something for free. It's because they are depriving someone else of their rightful property. The act of physically taking something away from another person is what primarily makes theft ethically wrong.
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It doesn't have to be taken physically. Someone could divert money from my bank account at it would still be theft.
I see it as theft (or the moral equivalent) if person A gains something from person B that person B would not give freely to person A.
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If an individual forced someone to let him build an exact copy of their car, nobody would call that theft. There may be other laws violated depending on how the individual forced them to comply, but they're not going to be charged with stealing since both of them end up with copies of the physical object.
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Maybe not theft in the physical sense, but they would call it stealing. Don't claim otherwise if you have ever uttered the phrase "He stole my idea".
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The ethics behind copyright infringement are entirely different.
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You have shown they are legally different, I have yet to see how they are ethically different.
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Bill