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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4746029" data-attributes="member: 19675">Yet despite not being soul-stealing devices, they can help you commit theft.Part of the nature of a purely electronic good- that you can steal it without depriving the original creator of posession- in no ways diminishes the taking.There are VERY FEW goods that have that characteristic.I've posted the Black's Law dictionary definition of theft in several piracy threads:and(emphasis mine)By downloading without paying, you exercise unauthorized control over another person's property- you've committed a theft.By infringing on someone's copyright, you are stealing because:1) One of the fundamental powers of owning a copyright is the right to distribute or to choose not to distribute by any legal means. If you obtain copyrighted material without compensating the IP holder, you've done so by not honoring the terms by which he has offered to distribute the IP. IOW, you have deprived the owner with at least one benefit of ownership- the right to sell (or not sell) it to you.2) You have intentionally obtained & retained possession of the property without/beyond the permission of the owner.</blockquote>