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Originally Posted by calvin-c
So, the question implied but not really discussed is, how much does a person have to lose before it's considered theft? (In the US there's generally a distinction between petty theft & grand larceny. IMO downloading a pirated ebook would definitely be petty theft-but the piracy itself, i.e. uploading a book to make it available for others to download, could well be grand larceny.)
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No, it would be copyright infringement. Morally equivalent to theft also does not mean that it is theft. So maybe the question that was implied was how much before the copyright infringement was morally equivalent to theft.