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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
You CANNOT make a copy--legally or illegally--of something you don't already have a copy of. If you download something you do not own, you are not making a copy.
The person that put the file online illegally made a copy. You did not. You obtained something without paying for it, which is theft in my book.
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Is this some technical use of the word copy? Surely, if there is a file on a server, and I download it, the file stays there, and I now have a copy on my computer - I've copied it. I've copied their copy.