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Theft can also be define as unlawfully taking something not always just deprivation of goods
1 a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b : an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property
2 obsolete : something stolen
3 : a stolen base in baseball

Think about it where did the term Piracy come from
your example is not a very good one there is a huge difference between putting a sentence in a forum and writing that by copying it people agree to pay you and going out and ACTIVELY making a copy of something you don't have the rights too