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Originally Posted by rainy-taxi  depends on what is stolen. The question is, what is actually stolen? Right, there is nothing stolen. Imagine this:
You have a nice painting hanging in your home, on the wall. I make an exact replica of that painting for my own use. Did I just stole your painting?
If you think I did, why did I still left it (the original one, the one you own and still do) hanging on the wall? |
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Originally Posted by rcm If you rented a theater to do a big show with your genesis tribute band and you rented a sound system and lights and hired people to help with the production and tickets were 20 Euros. If you could fill 75% of the Theater you would recoup all the money you spent and any tickets you sell over 75% would be profit.
The big night of your show, there is a long line of people wanting to buy tickets to see the concert. after 50% of the seats had been sold I opened up the side door and let all the rest of the people in for free without buying tickets. The concert is 90% full but you lost money because I let people in for free instead of paying.
Did I steal from you? Was what I did a victimless crime. Would you want to sue me? |
..or better yet a couple people that paid went to the back door and let a bunch of people in without paying. They saw the show without paying. Did they steal from you? When they left they didn't take anything with them. The music you played is just a copy of the music you always play so you still have your music. heck some of the people that got let in were just walking buy and only came in because it was free...they weren't gonna buy tickets anyway..........