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But you're not taking the content, you are copying it. If Joe Bob puts a copy of Mass Effect on a torrent and Jim Bob downloads it Joe Bob still has his copy. It's not taken, it's duplicated. A crime, perhaps, but not theft in any way. If someone in Brazil buys every 360 for $30 no one lost anything at all. The companies making the games can't even claim they lost a sale since the person in question almost certainly wouldn't have been able to afford it anyway. For theft you need to have lost something. In piracy there's just more of something. Really it's more like counterfeiting, which is also not theft.



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