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Pretty amazed that they would make it legal to steal... The law is too vague on how they would attempt to contact the owner and it does not state how much they have to pay to license it.

It's not stealing. It's copyright infringement. It's pretty important that we not let this distinction slip entirely from the public consciousness, because they're very different concepts.

It's stealing if you infringe my copyright. It's sharing if I infringe someone else's.

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