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"Is copyright infringement theft" is something that had been debated for as long as mp3s were a thing. This is an old argument with lots of material on both sides scattered across the web. I clearly fall on the side of copyright infringement is theft and theft is stealing.
There's absolutely no debate, legal or otherwise.
Theft, by definition, requires you to deprive someone of something. That simply cannot happen when you copy stuff. That's why it's called copyright infringement and not theft.
You can only steal art by physically stealing an art piece - then and only then it's theft.
😀 just want to note theres a call out to this debate in the Wikipedia page on copyright infringement. I promise I didn't add that paragraph there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement
What do you mean there is no debate? You're debating it right now.
Plenty of artists view it as theft when people take their work and use it for their own ends without their permission. Not everyone, sure. But it's a bit odd to state so emphatically that there is no debate.