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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
You walk into a book store, take a copy off the shelf and sneak it out of the store without paying for it. As soon as you walk out, you throw it in the trash can. Now make the same argument to the judge?
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That's a flawed analogy. You're again confusing depriving someone of their property versus making a copy. Yes, in your example above it is obviously theft because even though you just threw it in the trash the store no longer has their book. But, that has nothing to do with downloading.
It's more like you walk into a book store, make a xerox copy of a book, put the original back on the shelf were you found it and take your xerox copy with you without paying for it. As soon as you walk out, you throw the xerox copy in the trash can.
In that case, nobody has been deprived of anything, neither physical object nor income.