From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-12-24, anoneds@netscape.net  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Please don't fall for the silly one liners of the Hollywood mob. If   
   >> something has different definitions in law texts, it is for good reasons,   
   >> and equating everything with either theft or (mass)murder is ridiculous.   
   >   
   > However, plagiarism is unethical, esp. in the circumstance where you   
   > are a student who is supposed to be learning.   
      
   Nobody denied that.   
      
   > And in certain circles,   
   > it IS theft - you can be prosecuted.   
      
   Noobdy denied that you can be prosecuted. One can (and will probably)   
   prosecuted for murder also, but that makes murder a crime, not theft.   
      
   So my point is just that theft is something else than plagiarism. See my   
   earlier example.   
      
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