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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The problem is that while I think of illegal downloading as theft. I don't think it as theft of property, per see. It's just that nothing other than theft comes close to accurately describing "taking something without paying for it" for me. And that's what illegal downloading is: taking something you're not entitled to have without paying for it. If that's not theft, then nothing is, in my opinion.
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I, too, struggle with defining it without using the word "theft." Of course, I know the legal terminology; but at least, the publisher/author has been
damaged. Their rightful
earnings have been stolen (withheld) from them--that is certain. The property, legally, has not been taken, but the earnings have. There's no other way of describing the loss of money, really, so to me, like you, it's
theft.
Hitch