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Originally Posted by martyh
If you paint a picture and someone decides they like it and takes it off your wall and takes possesion of that painting that is obviously theft ,if someone comes around your house sees the picture decides they like it and takes a HD photo of said picture prints it and decides to sell it to make money that is copyright infringement (assuming you had it copyrighted in the first place) not theft because they haven't stolen the picture merely copied it
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At the end of the day, it can be argued that copyright infringement is also theft. While you have not removed the physical product from the original owner, you have made a copy of it. A copy for which they would normally have charged you, and therefore you deprived them of the income from that copy, therefore it could be argued, that you stole money off them.
Tenuous, I know, but its there.