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Originally Posted by jamesbeat
Bad analogy. Stealing a physical book from Borders would be depriving them of a physical object, and thus prevent them from selling it to someone else.
Downloading a pirated ebook, while it is still wrong, does not permanently deprive the publisher of it, and thus does not meet the definition of stealing.
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It may be your opinion that it is not stealing, but you are wrong according to legal books that I have checked. You can also go to law.com and look up theft. It says that is is the crimes where someone intentionaly take personal property without permission or consent. Has nothing to do with whether it is a physical object or not. It is still a crime.