xXBatmanXx wrote on Sep 1, 2010, 04:20:
Uhhhh...as I said, it is not theft as no one is being deprived of their property. All you did was backup my assertion.
They are providing a software that you are not paying for and using.
But they're not depriving anyone in this instance, thus the legal definition of theft doesn't apply.
xXBatmanXx wrote on Sep 1, 2010, 04:20:
On top of that - someone, at some point, DID steal it. They transfered it from either a server master copy of the software, or disc, or some other format.
SO you could also be "in possesion of stolen property".
Conjecture - you don't know this for sure and can probably never know. The software may have been copied (not theft), legally purchased and copied (not theft) or lent to a friend who copied it (not theft). It may even have been distributed by the developers themselves which I believe is not unheard of.
xXBatmanXx wrote on Sep 1, 2010, 04:20:
Or you can just be under the catch all of "theft of services".
Or under any number of federal laws for tranfering over state lines, computer, mail, etc.
I can't speak regarding state lines but theft of services doesn't apply to purchased goods, as there is no service rendered. If you paid the developers to install your game as well as give you a copy, and you never paid, that would be theft of services.
I am not a lawyer, all opinions are expressed as such, by reading this you absolve me of any and all responsibility for anything and everything ever. Your statutory rights are as they were before reading this. No purchase necessary. Do not taunt happy fun Zzet.