re: Can someone tell me why I should pay for shitty ESPN over pirate streams?

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Kind of rich to lob out "you know a lot of words" when you're trying to save a flailing argument with incomprehensible nonsense like "that's for distributors of copyrighted content."

How is that in any way responsive to what I've posted (legal basis for actions for IP infringement, which is certainly based on deprivation/conversion)? Hint: It's not.

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I don't know what's so hard to understand here. In order to make the legal argument for infringement being "theft", you had to introduce the concept of the theft of goodwill from the copyright holder. The word is a slightly better fit here, if only because someone is deprived of something. But it is not the content that the owner is deprived of. Rather, it is something intangible.

My response, though, pointed out that this offense is committed by those who redistribute unauthorized copyrighted content. NOT by those who consume it.

"Theft" is a very simple word with a very simple definition. Applying it to the act of watching illegal streams is metaphorical at best.