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Originally Posted by Format C:

I never said I wrote "Under the Dome".

But, if I did, would you rather call it "theft" or "plagiarism"?

And again, I'm sorry for my bad English. I swear I didn't know that "it's a felony different from theft" actually means "no harm is done". Now I know it, thank you.



Even for your car trip there are other names for what you did. In my country it sounds like "unauthorized temporary possession", which is not theft, and is given, when proved, different penalties...

Now you are introducing a very different word into the discussion "a felony different from theft". Yes, I could agree with that. I said theft comes close, I didn't say it covers it exactly. It is a different type of theft, a theft were someone did not steal a physical object, but the exclusive (I am disregarding fair use exceptions for the moment) right to create copies of a file. But since you agree that it should be a felony, why putting all this effort into finding a special word for it?