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Old 05-07-2012, 01:38 PM  
raymor
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Originally Posted by DamianJ View Post
There's a DVD in a store. If you walk in and steal it, you are depriving the store the ability to sell that DVD.

That is theft.

Copyright infringement is when you download a copy of a DVD, and there is nothing physical moved, removed, or stopped being able to be sold.

It's that simple.
And either way you're taking someone's work without paying for it, taking food from the creator's table.
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