• hightrix@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      No. It is not. If you’d like a crime to compare it to, forgery would be more accurate.

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        10 months ago

        Forgery usually involves submitting what you faked to some other entity in order to do something. Maybe if you illegally copied and sold that music. Regardless the penalties are similar anyway.

    • mlg@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      the unauthorized use of another’s production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright

      Piracy can often invovle legally obtained items or even bypassing item bans.

      You pirate a movie by taking a real copy and sharing it with others over the internet by making more copies or by making it copyable.

      Stealing a movie would be taking the real copy without paying for it.

      You could both steal and pirate the movie, but in the context of modern media, the source material is usually obtained legally.

      That’s why most torrents usually have the source in the title to show what it was taken from (DVD, BluRay, WEBRiP, WEB-DL, etc).

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      10 months ago

      Incorrect. Last I checked, theft is depriving the original owner of their product or service. When it comes down to it, piracy is essentially making an illegal copy, meaning the original is still there.