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by shazzy 3089 days ago
Interestingly (in the UK) theft requires that the perpetrator have the intention of "permanently depriving" [1] the owner. So at least in the UK this seems like it wouldn't be counted as theft.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/crossheading/de...

2 comments

Probably not theft, but I think it would qualify as criminal conversion. Google would likely need to complain though for the authorities to do anything about it, and I can't see them doing that.