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If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing
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this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2023
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If you hire me to paint your portrait and then don't pay me you have stolen my labour. I have given my time and effort and have not been reimbursed for it.
If you paid me and then gave your neighbour a copy of your portrait then you have not stolen my labour.
No, that's not theft. That's fraud.