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Originally Posted by kennyc
Here we go again.... It IS stealing. It IS theft in an ethical and moral sense. If you insist on only allowing legal definitions you are simply avoiding the truth and attempting to justify the theft.
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I'm sorry, but legal definitions do matter. it's the difference between cold-blooded walking up and shooting somebody (murder) and a soldier shooting an enemy charging at him (permissible act of war, during combat). In both cases, one person shoots another...
How can you accurately describe the difference between taking a physical item, of which there is only one of them, and making an unpermitted copy of an existing object, after which the one object now becomes two items. it's a different act with different results. For descriptive clarity, the two different acts each need a separate name. You may want to treat them as same level of legal severity, but you need to clarify the difference between the two acts.