LogFAQs > #912510549

voldothegr8 posted...

MaverickXeo posted...

voldothegr8 posted...

How is it not theft, because it's digital? That's dumb. If you take a product, physical or otherwise, without paying for it that's theft.

Theft of a physical product removes that product from the seller/owner. Piracy does not remove the product from the seller/owner.

But you're still taking a product without paying for it. Regardless what happens on the "victim" side of things, that's theft.

The concept of theft and the widespread belief that it is an immoral act is 100% derived from the fact that somebody's belongings have been removed from them, and thus any utility that one would derive from having said thing in their possession would be lost.

That simply does not happen with piracy. You guys can split hairs about whether or not it's moral or not, and that's fine I don't care to have that discussion because I can see both sides. But piracy is definitely not theft. It's duplication. It's copying.