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Originally Posted by tompe
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.
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Theft is the taking of property without the owner's permission. It seems to me that copyright law says that the right to reproduce a book is the property of the author. It doesn't matter whether you leave the owner a copy or not, the act of theft lies in *you* taking the copy. Without permission, of course.