I sell apples at the market. Someone took my apple for free and made a pie out of it. They said it was not theft, because my market stall was in the public.

I sold an apple with DRM. One person bought my apple and gave it to a Chinese hacker, whom stripped the DRM and duplicated my apple for everyone, for free. They said it was not theft.

I grew an apple and put it on a cloud provider's server. I sold access to many duplicated apples, until a technology update forced me to change providers. I found out I could not take back my apples from the cloud providet without paying exorbitant fees. They said it was not theft.

I made an encrypted apple, I sold it on an app store. The app store banned me and my apple, the virus software flagged my apple, the TPM chip stopped my apple from being played, the government cracked open the encryption and duplicated my apple for national security purposes. They said it was not theft.

The only way to sell apples, is through perfectly-black, 'black boxes'. Putting apples on computers, gets them stolen. End of story.

It's been forty years now. There's nothing to be 'unsure about'.

'Benefit of the doubt' for intellectual property theft is deader than a dodo.