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Originally Posted by HarryT
Perhaps you'd be good enough to point out where I said that it was?
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You asked him if he took other things without paying if he thought the price was too high. To take something (i.e. to take for one's own use while depriving another person of that use) with out permission or compensation is a reasonable definition of stealing. He has not taken something in the sense that he as denied another person the use of that thing; he made an unauthorized copy. You are right, you did not directly say that he was stealing. The rhetorical weight of your statement lies in the equivocal use of the word "take." Taking a file (i.e. making a copy) is not the same thing as taking a CD. Your statement implies that it is. If that is not your meaning, however, I apologize for my misreading.
Luqman