Fr. Josh Miller on Nostr: I was speaking to a very specific form of “theft” in the first instance, one ...

I was speaking to a very specific form of “theft” in the first instance, one related to material goods. Not paying a laborer for his time is another form of stealing, as it relates to remuneration for time (and probably materials also).

With replicable software and media, the moral issues come down to ones of intellectual property, and what is owed here as a result of creation. Morally, we would say that one has a right to be remunerated for intellectual property, even if you aren’t technically stealing anything from them.