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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Copyright infringement is stealing. Infringement means accessing something you do not have the right or permission to access. Trying to parallel that to jaywalking and murder is ludicrous unless you were going for comparing the severity of the offense. Again, because you don't see the value of something doesn't exonerate you. It still doesn't matter if something if something you take actually doesn't have value (not likely or you wouldn't want it), if you you take something that doesn't belong to you, you are a thief. And just because you are getting away with it doesn't make it right.
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It isn't stealing, but it is Copyright infringement. If I steal a book from you, you no longer have possession of the book, I do. If I copy it - we both now possess the book. Both are illegal, but not the same crime.
By your logic, if I lend my books to a friend, that person is stealing from the author and I guess I would be an accomplice.