[Oarch]

> Stealing implies the thing is gone, no longer accessible to the owner.

Isn't this a little simplistic?

If the value of something lies in its scarcity, then making it widely available has robbed the owner of a scarcity value which cannot be retrieved.

A win for consumers, perhaps, but a loss for the owner nonetheless.

[protocolture]

No calling every possible loss due to another persons actions "Stealing" is simplistic. We have terms for all these things, like "intellectual property infringement".

Trying to group (Thing I dont like) with (Thing everyone doesnt like) is an old semantic trick that needs to be abolished. Taxonomy is good, if your arguments are good, you dont need emotively charged imprecise language.

[Oarch]

I literally reused the definition of stealing you gave in the post above.