Threatening messages aimed to prevent digital piracy have the opposite effect if you're a man, a new study from the University of Portsmouth has found. According to the research, women tend to respond positively to this kind of messaging, but men typically increase their piracy behaviors by 18%.
It’s not stealing unless you delete the original when you download it. It’s forgery at best
It’s copyright infringement.
I prefer the term appropriation:
Still doesn’t fit, because you’re not taking anything, you’re making a copy.