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scveteran I believe the argument is nothing was taken because the person claiming theft hasn't lost any property. If I take a photo of your car you still have the car, if i build an identical car you still have your car, if I have a magical matter duplicator that copies your car all the way down to every single atom get into the newly made car and drive off you still have your car. I wouldn't have even violated any patents since what I build for my own personal use that never passes to anyone else won't apply. But I would have committed copyright infringement when i made an atom for atom copy of the owner's manual in your glove box. But you yourself lost nothing, not stealing, copying which is not a crime it is a civil matter.
I see a lot of this in these threads, whatever you think of unauthorized copies on a moral level making one is a civil matter.
Repeat after me, civil not criminal, civil not criminal, civil not criminal.
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