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why not? I'm curious what you define as "property". Does property have to be physical?

For example if you felt your body and your mind was your property, if someone else copied your mind and was now profiting off of that without your consent, would you not feel that harmful to you?

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If someone generated AI porn of me I'd certainly feel violated, among other things, but it's not stealing the same way as stealing my car so I can't get to work is. So it's not stealing, we need a different word. copyright infringement doesn't roll off the tongue though. 盗版 "doh baan" is Cantonese for pirated software/media. The original isn't easy to type, but daoban is.

Daoban might not ever enter western lexicon the same way tsunami or kowtow has, but stealing is just the wrong word to use.

Which words are you proposing work better for the scenarios in this article?

Daoban is the word I'm introducing from Cantonese.

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