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Originally Posted by Pragma
You might not steal a DVD from a store - but you may watch a movie without the license to do so. It's a tricky difference to understand and probably would take a competent lawyer to put in understandable terms, but it does appear as though there is an actual difference (hence why all of these people are being charged with the civil charge of copyright infringement instead of criminal larceny suits).
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I can't answer that. What I
can say is that if I write a program and make it available for sale, and you take and use a copy w/o paying for it, or take and give away copies w/o paying for them, or pay for a copy and give away further copies, that you are making the program available to others w/o my permission and are denying me payment for my effort. This is known as "theft".