[electrondood]

If I'm banned from a store, it's still theft if I take goods from that store without paying.

[postalrat]

In this case the store doesn't exist due to sanctions.

So if you take goods from a store that doesn't exist is it stealing?

[sudosysgen]

Because the store can't sell those goods. In this case the store can still sell the goods, and there is no lost revenue. There is not a single analogy to theft.

[akomtu]

Software isnt taken, it's replicated like photographs.