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Downloading is not stealing
Hint: if you get to keep the original, then you can't use the word "steal".
When someone downloads movies or music illegally, they make a copy, he argues. The original is still there, and legally speaking nothing is stolen. Scott concludes: “To use the infringement-as-stealing meme demonstrates something of a lack of respect for language and consequently a lack of respect for the people to whom you are speaking.”
Scott nails it. "Downloading is stealing" is just propaganda that spreads a self-serving lie.