| Galaki said: Great. We're back to piracy = theft again? |
It is theft. Pirates like to tell themselves all sorts of stories to make themselves feel better at night but it's theft. You're taking peoples' work and duplicating it without their permission and without payment for their efforts. You can go ahead and tell yourself whatever you like but it's hard to make a logical argument that it's not theft. Is it the same thing as stealing a car? Of course not, you're not depriving another person of the product in question. Hell, you may not even be depriving the creator of revenue because if it wasn't free, you may not have even downloaded the movie/album/whatever. But that's not the only definition of thievery. In the end, you're profiting from another person without their permission. However you want to boil that down, it's stealing.
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