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human
in whatever occult or religious or spiritual tradition you know of, is piracy considered stealling?
gpt
If someone loans you a book, have you stolen it?
If someone makes you a copy of a book that they read and willingly gives it to you free of charge, have you stolen it?
What if you took an original book, tore one page out of it, and typed it out by hand, then stuffed it back into the book in its rightful place? And you did that again and again and again, until the whole book was made up only of pages you had typed? Is it even the same book any more? If so, how? If not, when did it stop becoming the same book?
What if you take all the original pages of that book and willingly give them to someone free of charge? Have you stolen the book? Have they?
human
>If someone loans you a book, have you stolen it?
that's the thing, are they allowed to loan? yes? no?

>If someone makes you a copy of a book that they read and willingly gives it to you free of charge, have you stolen it?
it depends, did the copyrigt allow a copy of the book by any medium? if not, that would be an infrigment of the law of the land, so in Judaism it would be considered as theft, both you and your friend robbed the author

I'm curious about what other mystical traditions say about the subject