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SailorGoon posted...

Well yeah. If you choose to water it down like that it is. The question of theft also brings up the question of ownership. Theft is the action of taking something that does not belong to you whether you do so knowingly or not. You are free to argue the semantics of whether or not you are "taking" something, but there's still question of whether the newly acquired possession belongs to you. Which is why legality is often cited.

I'm curious as to which countries allow you to legally own something without purchasing it?

Also, Whether it's enforced or not doesn't change the fact of whether or not said property actually belongs to you btw.

You can pirate basically any software in China, India, and a number of other countries and there is no punishment. Pirated software is openly distributed and even used as a selling point by many people there (buy this computer, I preloaded it with all Microsoft software, tons of games, etc.) selling hardware. But there is literally no country that treats piracy and theft the same, so that's a really weird argument to take to begin with.

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