[SteveMcKing]

Please...please tell me you do not have children, and are in no position to pass your values on to any. America was founded on personal responsibilities...we all have a responsibility to do the right thing and tell temptation to do wrong to take a hike.

I said nothing of values, rather discussing plain definitions.

Copying may still be wrong, but the degree of wrongness - however great or small - should not be compared with the fundamentally different act of theft.

[NordP]

See my post #59, speaking of “degrees of wrongness.”

[Valpal1]

Theft of intellectual property is no different from theft of tangible property in that in still deprives the property owner of any potential financial gain derived from the stolen property.