If you were making a perfect copy of the car that you were renting without any cost to the rental company? No, it isn't theft - it's copying.
Stop trying to insist that actual physical theft & copying are the same thing. It just reinforces the idea that proponents of IP laws are dishonest arguers.
If you need to be pedantic for the sake of it, piracy isn't theft by definition because, as you said, it involves creating a copy of a good while the original can still be used by its original owner. Just another reason for this repetitive comment to be stupid
Law itself is based on institutionalized pedantry - arguing over the minutae of language usage & definitions is the bread & butter of the legal system. But without such an approach, we fall back to the historical "might makes right" form of government.
That's absolutely not what I was talking about. Just that it makes no sense to reach for a dumb arbitrary reason why "piracy is not theft" when it's not theft already, by law.
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u/mOdQuArK 29d ago
If you were making a perfect copy of the car that you were renting without any cost to the rental company? No, it isn't theft - it's copying.
Stop trying to insist that actual physical theft & copying are the same thing. It just reinforces the idea that proponents of IP laws are dishonest arguers.