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   From: none@of.your.biz   
      
   On 27/10/2010 1:54 AM, Barry Margolin wrote:   
   > The H3CKL3R wrote:   
   >> Theft (n)   
   >>   
   >> 1 a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and   
   >>         removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful   
   >>         owner of it   
   >>     b : an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property   
   >> 2 (obsolete) : something stolen   
   >> 3 : a stolen base in baseball   
   >>   
   >> Nothing here about plagiarism; just the physical, unlawful taking of   
   >> property. Note particularly the element of depriving the rightful owner   
   >> of it, which copying does not do, nor even plagiarism.   
   >   
   > I didn't say it was in the definition of "theft"   
      
   Then you were being irrelevant, since I said "plagiarism is not theft".   
      
   > it's in "steal".  And the first definition of "theft" makes reference to   
   > stealing.   
      
   It also makes reference to depriving the rightful owner of what's stolen.   
      
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