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NJ5 said:
misterd said:

Goods OR property. Property refers to intellectual property as well as physical goods. Try a legal dictionary next time.

 

But if you steal a game (even from a store), you aren't stealing the intellectual property from the company which made it. They still have it, hence you didn't deprive them of it, hence you didn't steal IP.

To steal IP would be to break into a company and steal all the copies of a game's source code, for example.

Piracy is wrong and illegal, but I don't think it's stealing.

I think it mostly deals with copyright infringement. That's what I remember them teaching me in school. I went to school a long time ago though. The example used was taping songs off the radio. That used to be the cool way to pirate stuff.