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From my understanding theft has always been to take something and after the other party doesn't have it anymore. This never applied to piracy.
For example: I used to pirate games back in school as I didn't have the money to buy them. So there is no financial loss for the company. Yet they still frame it as bank robbery or something. "You wouldn't download a car"
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It never applied to copyright infringement, which is often disparaged as "piracy."
Right, but I'm saying "piracy" has the same problem as "theft". Copyright infringement is even less related to the traditional meaning of piracy than it is to theft.