potato_hamster said:
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.
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... 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.
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Nope, Still stealing. It's data you didn't pay for. You do not have the right to do anything to the data unless it is yours. Even though you are copying it, you're still taking a file without paying for it.