Piracy explicitly is not stealing. Theft requires denying the owner of the ability to use the thing that is stolen. Copyright infringement does not meet this bar, and is not a crime in the vast majority of cases. Commercial copyright infringement is the only offense classed as a crime, which in a nutshell is piracy for profit ie selling pirated material.
Piracy explicitly is not stealing.
Piracy is attacking ships at sea and is usually done in order to rob them.
This is why you get a letter of marque to give you legitimacy. I’ve been letioning my government for one endlessly so I can attack Russian shipping in the balkans.
Someone: Photographs pages of a book in a book store
OP: “Hello Police? Someone is stealing a book!”
If no one loses anything they never had in the first place it is not stealing
You can steal digital goods, but to do so you have to copy it and erase the original. Otherwise its just copying.
Don’t make me tap the sidebar again…
