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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3592316" data-attributes="member: 307">Actually, it is still stealing, because you are taking something that is not yours and using it. Depriving the owner of the property is not required - all that is necessary is the misappropriation of the property. (You can look up the dictionary definition, stealing is simply taking something that is not yours, depriving the owner of the item is not required).If course, the property in question is not (for example) the book - it is the exclusive right to make copies of the book. Since someone who pirates intellectual property is taking the right to control the copies available away from the owner, they are stealing something from him that he then no longer has any more.So the word &quot;stealing&quot; is prefectly accurate. And it is completely correct to call people who indulge in this sort of thing &quot;thieves&quot;. You can dress it up as &quot;infringement&quot;, but all that does is hide what is really taking place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 3592316, member: 307"] Actually, it is still stealing, because you are taking something that is not yours and using it. Depriving the owner of the property is not required - all that is necessary is the misappropriation of the property. (You can look up the dictionary definition, stealing is simply taking something that is not yours, depriving the owner of the item is not required). If course, the property in question is not (for example) the book - it is the exclusive right to make copies of the book. Since someone who pirates intellectual property is taking the right to control the copies available away from the owner, they are stealing something from him that he then no longer has any more. So the word "stealing" is prefectly accurate. And it is completely correct to call people who indulge in this sort of thing "thieves". You can dress it up as "infringement", but all that does is hide what is really taking place. [/QUOTE]

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