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Originally Posted by Moejoe
It is not 'theft' nor will it be 'theft' just because you say it is so or it 'feels' that way to you. At worst it is copyright infringement. Theft deprives the original owner of property, copying a file does not.
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And you're just playing games with semantics to fit your own purposes. Whether you call 'theft' or 'copyright infringement', the end is the same: you're using someone else's PROPERTY without their consent.
Following your philosophy, sneaking in the back door of a concert hall and listening to a concert without paying for it is harming no one and is not a crime.
Following your philosophy, using lock-picks to unlock a vacation rental, staying there for a few days, and then leaving without paying is harming no one and is not a crime.
Following your philosophy, sneaking into a rival's research and development lab and taking photographs of their recent invention developments is not a crime (you haven't stolen anything, after all!)
Rationalize all you want. Copying an author's work without paying the author for it is a crime (moral, whether legal or not). NOTE: I don't work for a Large Evil Greedy Corporation. I'm an individual who works for a living, CREATING items that I'm willing to share with other people FOR A PRICE. If you were to ever get off your butt and do something similar, you might find yourself feeling a little differently about "information wants to be free."
And you're welcome to have the last word, as I won't be contributing any more to this thread (at least, not in the near future), as I have work to be doing and don't have enough spare time to want to spend it arguing with people who have already rationalized immoral behavior.