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Originally Posted by shalym
(emphasis mine)
Issybird, I'm sorry, and I don't want to make anyone think that I approve of copyright infringement, but there is a reason why it can't describe both. The reason is that words matter, and the definitions of words matter.
If you can find a definition in a recognized dictionary that allows the word "theft" to apply to intellectual property, I'll concede the point. I couldn't find one.
Shari
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The dictionary readily available to me (Student's Oxford Canadian Dictionary 2nd edition) defines theft as 'the action or crime of stealing' and the first defination of steal as 'take illegally without right or permission'
Nothing in those definitions would keep illegal copying from being called theft unless someone was being very, very picky about the word 'take'
