Brian McNeil wrote:
Copyright infringement is *NOT* theft.
When you infringe someone's copyright you have duplicated what they have, not taken it away from them.
For this very reason, the law views the two offences differently. If you equate copyright infringement with theft, you've been drinking the RIAA kool-aid.
I think that "theft" was an unfortunate choice of words. A different word could be used without diminishing the importance of Baidu's improprieties.
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