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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3592683" data-attributes="member: 18280">Well, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, anyway, wrongful appropriation and theft are two different, albeit related, crimes.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />(Roughly, in the UCMJ, stealing is taking the thing with no intent to return it, wrongful appropriation is taking the thing without permission, but with no intent to deprive the owner of it's use.  If I take your stereo to keep, that's stealing, but if I take your stereo while your on a field problem, and pawn it for cash with the intent to have it back by the time you return, that's wrongful appropriation.)This is similar to the idea that killing someone might be murder, or it might be manslaughter, or it might be justifiable homicide (as in self-defense).  Killing someone is always akin to murder, but isn't always murder.  Taking something that doesn't belong to you is always akin to stealing, but isn't always stealing.Also, depending upon where you are, copying a pdf (or CD) might not infringe copyright.  The copyright laws of Canada, for instance, are different in this regard than those of the U.S. (although there are attempts being made to get Canada to change its copyright laws).EDIT:  As an author, though, I appreciate the point too.  Still, I've been agreeing with you too much lately, and you know we can't have that.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> RC</blockquote>

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