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Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by vkou on Thursday September 05, 2024 @01:29PM (#41458739)
If we are going to use ridiculous definitions of stealing, I will have to point out that private, non-personal property - anything that you don't have direct personal possession and control over - is theft.

It's copyright infringement. It's not theft. Theft deprives an owner of use of an item.

Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by _DeadFred_ on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:52PM (#41459897)
TIL theft of labour is not real theft.
Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by vkou on Thursday September 05, 2024 @08:09PM (#41461572)
If it were, managers would be going to prison for wage theft and misclassifying workers.

Instead, it's treated as a civil issue, when it's pursued at all.