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Originally Posted by ggareau
For someone who's claiming to be misunderstood, I think it's you who misunderstands - there is no guarantee of theft going on. If I read a book from a library and remember all of its ideas an intricacies (or god forbid I have a photographic memory and can recite long passages from memory) am I stealing IP? If you cannot show harm, you cannot posit theft. If you read a book at the library (or better yet, let's say you read a book at the bookstore without paying for it) are you gaining something? Sure. Are you stealing? No.
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If it it for your own personal use then there is no issue. If you make a copy for yourself from and unauthorized source or without permission then yes you are a thief. We've been through this thoroughly over in another copyright thread so I'm not going to get into it here which was/is not the focus of this thread but my stand is that:
If you take something of mine without my permission, you are a thief.