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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by filoleg on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:45PM (#19996768)
It is special, because when you steal a physical thing, the owner doesn't have that physical thing anymore. If you pirate something that you weren't gonna buy anyways, the owner still has the digital file in the exact same way they had it before you pirated. I cannot even call pirating "stealing" in good conscious tbh.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by mr_toad on Thursday May 23, 2019 @07:31PM (#19997059)
Legally, copyright infringement (and IP infringement in general) is treated more like trespassing than theft, in that you may be infringing on the owners enjoyments, rather than depriving them of property.
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