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by rowanG077 1074 days ago
A fundamental property of theft is that the action deprives someone of something they had. Piracy is not theft-adjacent. It has nothing do to with theft. It's a completely different concept.
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No, a fundamental property of theft is that it is the taking of that which does not belong to you - which clearly includes piracy.
That's an interesting thought. So when I overhear a conversation which was not aimed at me I am stealing. Quite an interesting definition with widereaching implication