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Originally Posted by Milambar
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.
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And that is the BIG argument. Does a copy equal a lost sale.
How many of us have been given a DVD by a friend who says 'You might like this' so we watch it and never buy it?