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Originally Posted by A Nonny Mouse
If I take a copy of digital media made available by a third party free of personal gain am I guilty of theft?
Seems to me only the legal profession can answer this
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That question, anybody who speaks English at a reasonable level can answer.
If you do something other than steal, are you guilty of theft? No.
What you would need the legal profession to tell you is whether the *receiving* (rather than taking, which implies somebody being deprived of what you have taken) or *sharing* of commercial digital media by a somebody not authorized to distribute it would be considered illegal by your country's justice system.
In a good few countries, only the sharing is illegal, the receiving is not.
- Ahi