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So you narrowly redefine theft to not include intellectual property or any non-physical good.

IANAL - but I don't think this would fly in any jurisdiction anywhere. Is this definition specific to a country whose laws I'm not familiar with?



> So you narrowly redefine theft to not include intellectual property or any non-physical good.

Theft in law generally only applies to tangible personal property, not intangible personally property and not real property. That's not a redefinition, just the long-existigng definition.


Did you plug "intellectual property theft" into Google before you came to this conclusion?


Try it and look at laws vs non-laws.


No I apply the actual definition of theft....

I never said that copyright infringement or copying and publishing personal data is OK morally or legally. I just said that they are different crimes.




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