[BusterStacks]

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It doesn't matter whether you're stealing a physical product or not, you're still stealing. By your analogy skipping out on a cab fare would be okay?

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Wear and tear on the cab, gas, cabbie's time, etc...

Making a digital copy of something takes nothing away from someone else.

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Agreed. Especially if you wouldn't have bought it anyway, which is a point a lot of people forget. Also by the rationale in this thread, it is stealing to make a copy of a tape for someone... or record a song off the radio...