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Originally Posted by gideongallery
websters defines theft as
vs fraud
ti quite clear that the copyright infringement is closer to the latter then the former quite simply because you are not depriving the rightful owner of the content.
When you commit an act of copyright infringement you are misrepresenting that you actually have some right to that content (view/listen/install) and that misrepresentation forces the copyright holder to surrender the exclusive right of distribution for a fee (value).
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Fair enough. When I read those two definitions it seems like download music illegally falls somewhere between the two. You are not taking away the owners right to continue to use it so it isn't true theft. But you aren't really committing an "intentional perversion of truth" either. You are just taking it. You aren't lying to someone and saying you are paying for it or that you have a right to it, you are just taking it.