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If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
Piracy never was stealing.
Stealing is taking with intent to deprive, making a copy does not deprive.
I don't think that intent has anything to do with it.
It absolutely does. This is why joyriding is a separate offense - joyriding does not require intent to deprive, so it's an easier burden of proof for prosecutors.
Sorry you were downvoted.
FYI the real travesty is that copyright infringement used to only be a civil offense. A business could only sue you, you wouldn’t be a criminal.
However after extensive lobbying from media rights organisations (eg the MPAA) most countries now have criminal copyright infringement laws on the books. These can have dangerously low thresholds - in the US if you have over $1,000 worth of infringing copyrighted material (eg much less than 100 movies) you could now be classed as a criminal.