potato_hamster on 02 July 2017
rjason12 said:
Yeah you are. We live in a digital age, just because you're not taking something physically, doesn't mean it's not stealing. Using your example, that would mean that hackers that take money from people's accounts aren't stealing. |
... again. Copying the file is not taking a file.
Taking money from someone's account is depriving that person of money. They no longer have something they once had. This is stealing. Copying a file on a hard drive is not depriving the owner from that file. They can still access this file as they please. It is not stealing, it is copyright infringement.
