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psychicscubadiver said:
potato_hamster said:

It's not theft of intellectual property, it's misuse of intellectual property. It's using IP in a way which you have no legal right to. For example. If I buy a legal copy of a blu-ray, digitize it, and then sell it to my friends for $5, I have no taken anything from anybody, but I am certainly breaking copyright law, because I made and sold copies of a file I had no right to copy and sell.

And why are you acting as if I think this is legal or moral? I never said copyright infringment was acceptable or legal. It isn't acceptable or legal, and I say this as someone who has been negatively impacted by copyright infringement.  I only claimed it wasn't theft/stealing. Because it isn't. That doesn't make it okay.

How do you explain identity theft?

The thief is not actually taking someone's identity away from them, just copying their data and using it for their own purposes without permission.

Identity theft has nothing to do with copyright. Besides, in many places, it is known as "identity fraud" for a reason.