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Originally Posted by kennyc
No I'm not kidding. Piracy is theft. If you take something of mine without my permission you are a thief. It's a matter of principles and morals and doing what is right. Just because you can (copy a file) doesn't mean you should.
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We've been over this before. Legally, illegal copying is not theft. Socially, it is not considered to be equivalent (witness the provision of blank media and equipment to facilitate various forms of copying, and the fact that most people do it). Morally, it depends on what your morals are.
I can only make sense of what your saying as either an assertion that they are in fact legally the same, or that people tend to view them as the same, or simply that you feel the same way about them.
If you find, say, the theft of CDs from a shop and the copying of a CD to give to a friend, equally repugnant, fair enough. It strikes me as an unusual point of view, but it's all that I can think you mean.