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user-inactivated · 3423 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can we cogently refute "stealing is stealing"?
But do you see how specific your wording is now? In order to turn your argument into a useful point, you had to abandon any mention of the word "stealing" or "theft", and it's no longer such a simple, trite, cleat-cut point from the other side to say "thou shalt not deprive an author of royalties for your personal use of their creative works". But there are no simple, trite, clear-cut methods for arguing that failing to pay royalties for the personal use of media is not the same thing as depriving the rights holder their rightful royalty payment.