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Both are wrong, but it really is a matter of math. If one person steals a $40 software key the loss to the software developer is $40. If the person publishes a stolen software key and 100k people download and use the stolen key the loss to the developer is $4 million. If someone shop lifts a $40 item and gets caught the likely punishment is probation. If a person gets caught stealing $4 million there is a good chance they will be spending the next 20 years in jail. So basically the difference boils down to one is a misdemeanor and the other is a felony. So IMO there is a difference a big difference.
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