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Originally Posted by Shaggy
The problem is that some of the terms being intentionally thrown around by certain interests lead people to believe that some behavior is wrong... when it actually isn't. "Theft" implies a lot of things that don't actually exist in copyright law.
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So does "piracy", but people seem perfectly happy to use that, even though copyright infringement has absolutely nothing to do with robbery at sea, which is what piracy actually is.
We can't control what people call things. Like it or not, some people use the word "theft" for copyright infringement, just as other people use the word "piracy"; both are of course, technically incorrect, but language is a living, evolving, thing. It's futile to try to dictate to people what they should or should not call something.