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Originally Posted by Hitch
So, fine--don't call it theft. Call it damages--but the bottom line is the same. You don't pay for something you're using, you're enjoying, and NOT paying the people who created it. Whilst a rose by any other name smells as sweet, a theft by any other name still doesn't pay the creators, and it stinks just as badly.
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This. Digital piracy might not be theft, legally and semantically. But it sure seems to me to be on an absolutely equivalent moral level - so much so that if people call it theft, it's such a narrow difference that I wouldn't argue (unless we're in a court of law where such meanings matter).