Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

The culture of entitlement from amoral people like yourself with no understanding of macroeconomics or fairness for that matter has now reached its zenith. Theft has a range of meanings. If one purposefully accesses a pay service like HBO for example without paying for it one is not actually removing a physical object nor is one depriving others from that service. Yet the law commonly defines that as a "theft of services". And rightly so. Even if the criminal who does so dubiously claims that they "weren't going to pay for it anyway". As if that is an excuse.