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Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by arkades on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:04PM (#23396304)
You can assert copying isn't stealing, but the part where "I have something I didn't have a minute ago, and would normally have to pay money to acquire it, but didn't" is pretty clear-cut.

Just because someone wasn't deprived of the thing you now have doesn't mean they weren't deprived of something of value, and pretending otherwise is a juvenile see-no-evil defense.

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Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by iopq on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:21PM (#23397107)
That's literally why it's not stealing. It's not legal, but it's also by definition not theft.
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Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by unreal37 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @10:51PM (#23399163)
Agreed. "Piracy isn't theft" is such a cliche in these arguments.

The people downloading the books, music, movies, etc are getting something that they want, that normally costs money, for free.

Come up with a new word if it isn't theft. But it looks and acts like theft.

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Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by Semaphor on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:28PM (#23397767)
> and pretending otherwise is a juvenile see-no-evil defense.

And luckily I did not say that anywhere.

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