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Re:US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier pir... by Silhouette on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @09:21PM (#24289249)
Copyright infringement is not theft.

That's just a legal technicality. Either the viewer got to enjoy the work and the rightsholder got the corresponding money in their bank account, or they didn't. Whether a work was ripped before any payment was made, or the work was legally acquired but then the payment was stolen back from the bank account, the end result is functionally the same.

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Re:US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier pir... by DanBC on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:11AM (#24294447)
> That's just a legal technicality.

No, it really isn't. The vast majority of copyright infringement isn't even a criminal offence. It becomes a criminal offence if you do it as part of business, or if you distort trade to a significant amount.

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Re:US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier pir... by account42 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:44AM (#24294158)
By that logic you should be able to sue people for lost sales because they were not interested in your product at all.
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