Stealing

With the internet filled with so much free content, legal or not, I was wondering if anyone here has ever stolen anything?

We've all stolen our fair share of music, movies, apps, at one time or another (usegroups ftw), and we've all probably snuck into the movie theater, or at least movie hopped once in our lives. And while we tend to feel like those are gray areas, it's a clearly a form of stealing.

A good while back I would go to ebgames when they used to sell used PC games on the floor, and I'd look on the back of the jewel case and write down the serial to numerous games (mostly EA).

However, have any of you ever crossed that line into stealing something physical and tangible? By accident? On purpose? when you were younger? yesterday?

I can remember stealing a piece of broccoli from the produce section of Stater Brothers when I was about six, and feeling insanely guilty about it later. I didn't like broccoli, but the fact that I took it and I knew it was wrong made me feel like shit. Yet there are friends of mine that have no problem going into somewhere, trying on a shirt, putting their shirt on over it, and walking out.

I've been thinking about it today, because a friend from one of my classes came up to me and mention how there was a nice bike next to his without a lock on it, and how easy it would be to steal it. And I will admit that I often walk by bikes not locked up, or open top parked convertibles and think about how easy it would be to steal the bike, and steal from inside the convertible.

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Originally Posted by OGcritic

We've all stolen our fair share of music, movies, apps, at one time or another (usegroups ftw), and we've all probably snuck into the movie theater, or at least movie hopped once in our lives. And while we tend to feel like those are gray areas, it's a clearly a form of stealing.

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It is clearly a form of copyright infringement. It is not clearly a form of stealing.

I robbed the first video game store I worked at blind the few years I worked there. The owner was a coke/crack fiend who liked to come in and belittle us in front of customers so I never felt bad about it.

I stole your mom's virginity.

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Originally Posted by bbobb

It is clearly a form of copyright infringement. It is not clearly a form of stealing.

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I stand corrected. However, it's still closely associated.

I used to be a big klepto when I was a kid.

One amusing episode I remember was when there used to be a Walgreen's that I'd walk to quite often when I was in about 8th Grade or so, and they had one of those postage stamp machines right at the entrance to the place. This was one of those machines that had the normal books of stamps as well as the last column used for "collector stamps" and had a bunch of old and long out of print stamps. For whatever reason that slot of the machine was broken and you could pull the lever at will and get free stamps. So some days I would just walk over, go right to the machine, pull the lever like twenty times, and walk right out. I did this for about a month before an employee saw me in action and told me I couldn't do that, so I said sorry and handed over whatever I had at the time and left.

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Originally Posted by aren

I stole your mom's virginity.

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my moms virginity = your ex-gf's car?

so, is posting about this stuff binding in a court of law?

Yes, and future employers will search the internet and find out about it as well.

Move this to fight club if you're so all worried about repercussions. It sounds like buttcheeks has beans to spill.

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