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Originally Posted by kennyc
The reason you are not getting it is that you are limiting you definition of what theft is.
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understanding the definition.
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You are limiting it to only a physical item. I think it applies to much beyond that, theft of service, theft of intellectual PROPERTY, theft of ideas/concepts etc.
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Shrug. You are wrong, going by the standard definitions of the word.
You are free to use any word to mean anything you say, but don't expect other people to understand you, or to suddenly start using your definition just because you want them to.
theft: "the act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another; larceny."
Theft is when one person takes the property of another person without their permission, such that that person no longer has ownership of it. That is what the word means. Copyright infringement means you have taken a
copy of the property of another person without their permission, but they still have ownership of their original.
Two things can both be wrong without being the same thing.