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> You took something of value that was created or owned by someone else.

A person who creates or owns a piece of information still has it after you "steal" it. That's the difference between a physical and a nonphysical good.

(I'm not saying distributing copies of copyrighted works is automatically OK, just that your justification for it not being OK doesn't hold water).




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