Apparently Common Sense doesn't necessarily dictate as you state. My 'common sense' happens to align with the law on this matter(though it doesn't on other matters). And several people I speak with regularly or even irregularly who don't even know law tend to align themselves the same way(whether or not they pirate, one of them hadn't even realized you could download music... completely and utterly computer illiterate she was).


My point was simply that between trusting what 'one' person thinks as common sense(due to the fact that this sense seems to differ from person to person and from culture to culture) that I would go with the Text book example. My Law professor and even the majority of my Law class happened to figure the book was stating 'common sense'.


In the end I am merely stating that those who say it isn't theft are right. However, like most words in the English language it is open to interpretation and one interpretation is Wiki's - "theft (also known as stealing or filching) is the illegal taking of another person's property without that person's freely-given consent." Which would probably include piracy(though if you want to argue that it doesn't feel free to do so, I am interested in what could possibly be brought up against that). So basically, they are right and, as long as you don't claim it is always the same legally, you are right. So can we move on now?



Anyways I don't really care what you call it because, thanks to being forced to take some law courses, I happen to know I possess knowledge of the 'correct' terminology as far as objective/educational/legal(take your pick) use of the term is concerned.