alt Hacker NewsFunny how the copyright industry was able to spin copyright infringment into the pejorative "stealing". If you still have the item, what was stolen?
Dowling v. United States, 473 U.S. 207 (1985): The Supreme Court ruled that the unauthorized sale of phonorecords of copyrighted musical compositions does not constitute "stolen, converted or taken by fraud" goods under the National Stolen Property Act
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Everybody has had a complete 180 in terms of copyright protections. Before, nobody cared about downloading music, movies, TV shows, or pirating games. Now, when the copyright law is affecting them, they are gungho about protecting these billion-dollar companies' copyrights.
I don't think it's unreasonable to consider it stolen potential profit, but agreed that's not how they spin it
“Stolen” as in “profited on IP against terms and conditions of the license”.
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I still find the idea that "learning" from code is "stealing" kind of ridiculous.