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[JimmyRustler]

Back when I was still in school we used to download rips from games and then go to the store and copy the CD keys from actual game cases.

That’s about it. Was never much into stealing. There were even times where something in my cart was missed on checkout and I would go back to pay for it.

 

[Tams]

Nothing. I was raised properly.

I did take all the tea packets fron a Premier Inn room, but a) I had paid for them with the room, and b) they failed to give me any Nespresso pods.

Sailing the online high seas is not theft.

 

[Lord Panda]

I stole the 'No Parking' sign in front of my workplace, and then parked at the spot. Haven't been booked in the two or so years since the sign went 'missing'.

The sign now hangs proudly in my garage.

 

[GymWolf]

Tmnt michelangelo keychain from a toy shop when i was little, a great looking ashtray from a restaurant when i was 16, also my friend forgot headhunter ps2 at my house so no stealing but same result.

Karma fixed that, i had my yellow gameboy and psp with ghost of sparta stolen from me.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Sweets and Videogame magazines from a Papershop I worked at as a Paperboy, with accomplices that also worked there.
Got issues of Super Play, Nms, Snes force (iirc)
Margaret, the boss, gave us huge Mario selection boxes at Christmas.
We all felt so guilty that we decided to stop.
Poor Margaret, she must be long gone now.

 

[clarky]

Sailing the online high seas is not theft.

Of course it is.

 

[Lunarorbit]

It's been several years since i stole something. Was at the Chicago museum of art and stolen a fridge magnet.

I was around 35 and after I walked out I thought about how stupid I'd feel if I got caught and was in the paper.

I don't know you're situation so I won't judge. I'll just say I have a hard line when it comes to stealing from individuals but that's me

 

[ahtlas7]

I stole some things many years ago and I still feel bad about it today.

 

[V1LÆM]

Don't know the most valuable thing.

First thing to come to mind is that I once got £120 of Steam codes for buying a motherboard. It was only meant to be like £10 but I "bought" it 12 times You had to send in a receipt of your purchase/review. I used the inspect feature on my browser to change things and created fake accounts to post reviews. Got a few games out of it. Eventually returned my motherboard because it was faulty According to Steam I bought Destiny 2 expansion, Spyro Reignited, and pre ordered Doom Eternal. Ultimately it was a waste because they all sucked.

 

[lmimmfn]

When my brother and I were pretty young, (it was a long time ago but it had to have been between 2nd and fourth grade, though I'm not sure which one specifically), we were hanging around in front of the school one day jumping around just being kids, killing time till our mom picked us up. There was this raised garden thing that I'd always do stupid jump kicks and shit off of, pretending I was a Power Ranger, and behind the bush there we saw a white envelope. I can't remember exactly how much money we found in it, but for the early 90's it was a substantial amount. I don't know how off I am, but I think it was like 120 bucks, maybe 200. We really thought hard about what we should do with it, I mean for young kids who loved video games and comic books and had no concept of what was a lot of money, this essentially meant we just found the means to becoming fuckin sultans. I'm honestly utterly ashamed to admit that I don't think we considered taking it to the office and turning it in even once; maybe we did, but I don't remember it. We decided to keep it, and we spent it on what you'd imagine we did.
I would be so disappointed in my daughter if she did that, and I still feel guilty about that more than thirty years later, I'm being very serious about that too. I grew up in a poor area of TN, and doing that meant we royally fucked over someone who made an earnest mistake. Think about how much money that was back then before inflation, and think about how much trouble that kid who lost it there probably got in when his parents couldn't find the fuckin money man. I wonder sometimes if he got beat, if he cried a lot that night, if it affected his parents' trust of him, if he grew up in a trailer and his parents cried and stressed about this money that they maybe saved up for their kid. Goddamn, even all these years later it genuinely fucks me up to think about it, like I'm getting emotional dude.
Guilt's a mother fucker, man, and it really sticks to you if you're prone to it. Suffice to say, I never stole anything after that except for a Spawn toy from Walmart and that was on accident. I don't want the guilt dude, it weighs really heavy on me.

 

[HRK69]

I stole complete Pokemon card boxes from a store and sold the most valuable cards to a local game/card shop

I made a lot of money as a kid with that

 

[Rival]

The only thing I ever stole was The Declaration of Independence.

 

[Tams]

Of course it is.

Oh no it isn't.

 

[clarky]

Oh no it isn't.

Same as walking out of a shop with a dvd. You are helping yourself to something you haven't paid for.

 

[Aesius]

When I was 16-17, I bought some PC games on clearance at Staples and returned them to Walmart for store credit. Walmart was still selling them at full price. I spent like $10 to get $200 in Walmart credit. Felt like a genius until I realized that it was pretty much just simple theft. Or at least fraud.

I also used to take demo discs from sealed video game magazines in bookstores.

 

[clarky]

When I was 16-17, I bought some PC games on clearance at Staples and returned them to Walmart for store credit. Walmart was still selling them at full price. I spent like $10 to get $200 in Walmart credit. Felt like a genius until I realized that it was pretty much just simple theft. Or at least fraud.

I also used to take demo discs from sealed video game magazines in bookstores.

Genius.

 

[nush]

Same as walking out of a shop with a dvd. You are helping yourself to something you haven't paid for.

But nobody is deprived of said item. Only the assumption of a lost sale.

 

[clarky]

But nobody is deprived of said item. Only the assumption of a lost sale.

You're still taking something that doesn't belong to you.

AI Answers:

Yes, "piracy" is generally considered to be a form of theft, particularly in the context of digital content, as it involves taking and using copyrighted material without the creator's permission, which is seen as stealing intellectual property; although legally, the term "theft" might not always apply precisely due to the distinction between physical property and copyright infringement.

 

[Tams]

Same as walking out of a shop with a dvd. You are helping yourself to something you haven't paid for.

Oh sourpuss, no love for pantomime?

I bet you live those, 'You wouldn't steal a car' videos.

 

[nush]

You don't own digital content even if you brought it.

 

[poodaddy]

Brother....so much of my life could be improved if I could figure out how to do that lol. Not just for this, but in general. Whenever they figure out how to edit memories, I'll be the first in line.

 

[clarky]

You don't own digital content even if you brought it.

So its ok to steal it then?

For the record i torrent the shit out of all my movies and illegally stream IP tv. Just curious as to why you dont think its stealing.

 

[Sybrix]

As per title.


Ever forgot to pay for something down the shop? Or are you like me and can't go to Sainsbury's with out abusing the scan and save? Ever Pirated a game or movie?

I'm a bad person GAF, I once rented Hawk the Slayer on VHS and still have not returned it 35 years later.

Personally I think I'm borderline kleptomaniac

Confession time.

The amount of stuff i used to get from M&S was insane.

Why does the self-service not have scales?! What do they expect us to do?!?! lol

 

[clarky]

The amount of stuff i used to get from M&S was insane.

Why does the self-service not have scales?! What do they expect us to do?!?! lol

Decent grub in M&S as well.

In Sainsbury's they have hand held scanners so you just bag up as you go. Its insane, i think read the other day that 60% of their customers have stolen at least something in the last month. They do random checks as you cash out but I have a way around that lol.

 

[Bojji]

So its ok to steal it then?

For the record i torrent the shit out of all my movies and illegally stream IP tv. Just curious as to why you dont think its stealing.

If they don't even allow you to buy and OWN a thing they are essentially offering you a service, can you steal a service?

Piracy if of course not morally right and causes some (not what they claim, for sure...) damages to corporations and content creators. But it's not comparable to stealing physical items.

 

[clarky]

If they don't even allow you to buy and OWN a thing they are essentially offering you a service, can you steal a service?

Piracy if of course not morally right and causes some (not what they claim, for sure...) damages to corporations and content creators. But it's not comparable to stealing physical items.

Whats the difference between stealing a DVD from say the Amazon warehouse and torrenting it?

 

[Bojji]

Whats the difference between stealing a DVD from say the Amazon warehouse and torrenting it?

Amazon loses physical item, they are minus xx$ from that item and this can be easily calculated. In this scenario creators already got large percentage of money from this item from amazon when it bought it from them.

When you are downloading COPY from torrent site no one loses anything. Creators/publishers can only count one download as POTENTIAL lost sale. Potential, because most of the time "pirates" wouldn't buy this item anyway if it wasn't available for free.

 

[clarky]

Amazon loses physical item, they are minus xx$ from that item and this can be easily calculated. In this scenario creators already got large percentage of money from this item from amazon when it bought it from them.

When you are downloading COPY from torrent site no one loses anything. Creators/publishers are can only count one download as POTENTIAL lost sale. Potential, because most of the time "pirates" wouldn't buy this item anyway if it wasn't available for free.

You are also stealing a copy even in DVD form. Someone who stole the physical dvd also probably wouldn't have bought it.

Piracy costs each respective industry million in lost revenue, to say torrenting is a victimless crime is nonsense.

Are you suggesting you can only steal physical items?

You can justify it all you want but its still stealing.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Hearts. Lots and lots of hearts.

 

[Fbh]

I don't know if this was technically stealing but 10+ years ago when I worked retail, when people would bring used games to trade in, what me and some colleagues (to be fair, this included the branch manager) would do was that in the system we'd enter that the customer had paid the full amount in cash instead of "$20 with trade ins and $40 with cash", then we'd just put in the missing trade in value from our own pocket and take the game.
Since the place offered about the same shitty trade in values as Gamestop this, usually meant we could get fairly new games for $15-25.

Now, the customer still got the trade in value for his game and the company still got the whole $60 for the sale. But I guess we were robbing the company of the possibility to make a profit by selling the game that had been traded in.

 

[killatopak]

I stole a pack of candy at the store and got caught.

It was a dare. Should have waited until halloween.

 

[Crayon]

Nothing too crazy.

I didn't know what 'fell off the back of a truck' meant until I was like 10 and after I got so many goodies that did. So I went on to be a little thief and it carried on into adulthood. Never anything over a few hundred bucks, though.

I eventually realized it was a way of acting out and stopped. I didn't want the stuff that bad. And most of the time, if I really wanted something, I would think about how to make or save the money, not steal the thing. But sometimes, I would have these moments where stealing something would get me all high on life.

I was afraid to take anything huge, though. Not like my old friend ****, who also had a case of sticky fingers. He stole a fucking Rolex. :/ From a store, that is. (Neither of us ever took anything from people. That's no fun.) Brazen grand larceny. Then he went to another dealer and got it sized. Guy was insane.

 

[Bojji]

You are also stealing a copy even in DVD form. Someone who stole the physical dvd also probably wouldn't have bought it.

Piracy costs each respective industry million in lost revenue, to say torrenting is a victimless crime is nonsense.

Are you suggesting you can only steal physical items?

You can justify it all you want but its still stealing.

Yeah but in this case someone actually loses this DVD physical copy. With piracy this is not the case.

I never said piracy is victimless crime, but it's not comparable to steal of physical objects.

Answering OP, outside of piracy I don't think I have stolen anything. I also drive buses/trams without buying ticket 90% of the time, I'm a very bad boy.

 

[Spyxos]

Some candy and Ps one demo disc once from a gaming magazine.

 

[12Goblins]

I technically stole a x360 once, it was on the release date of NG2 and the damn machine rrod'd on me during the first cutscene, of course it was covered by the warranty, but I couldn't be bothered waiting since I wanted to play NG2.
So I bought a new x360, carefully opened it, and then just put my old one in the box and returned it; girl at the service desk looked at it and was like, "oh it's still fully unopened", I just smiled and said "yep".
Got my money back and a brand new x360 waiting at home to play NG2 on.

I did this shit so much in my teens with computer parts. See u in hell bro ಥ⁠_⁠ಥ

 

[Diddy X]

A plastic bag the other day, I had forgotten to pick it and didn't want to go through the payment process again

 

[nush]

The first thing I ever stole was a shrinky dink from a cerial pack in a supermarket.

 

[clarky]

The first thing I ever stole was a shrinky dink from a cerial pack in a supermarket.

Holy shit shrinky dinks. That takes me back.

 

[Jinxed]

Self checkouts are a gift from the gods. I can totally afford to buy my shit but taste the difference ice Lolly's taste different if they are free.

For some reason, I cant read the codes properly on my fruits and vegetables and they all cost the same as banana $/lb

 

[clarky]

For some reason, I cant read the codes properly on my fruits and vegetables and they all cost the same as banana $/lb

I know how you feel, its so confusing officer. I Just can't seem to remember if I scanned 2 ribeye steaks or 4 or did i scan any at all? I'm sure it beeped Its just so confusing this modern technology stuff.

 

[Windle Poons]

Don’t they put the security stickers on the steaks?

 

[clarky]

Don’t they put the security stickers on the steaks?

Nope. In the lower end supermarkets they do, ASDA etc but they get a better class of customer in Sainsburys.

 

[BlackTron]

I picked out this pair of orange plastic sunglasses to ask my mom for when I was like 5 but got distracted with this game demo. There was no counter and nowhere to put the glasses on the weirdly shaped kiosk, so confused where else to put them I stuck them in my pocket for later.

Well I forgot all about the glasses by the time I was done with the game and found them after I got home. I was scared shitless I had committed some crime or would go to jail. She just shrugged it off as no big deal when I told her which was a mix of relief and shock, but she could probably tell I was distressed lol.

This is all I've ever stolen except like, a used dirty USB cable lol. I had a boss once who was such an evil dishonest fucker who stole from everyone "white collar stye", who couldn't stop projecting and trying to "equalize" himself against everyone, he was constantly analyzing me desperate to catch me in the tiniest mistake, installing cameras and shit everywhere, trying to logically "catch" me in interrogations, god he wanted me to steal a dollar or something sooo bad so I "wouldn't be better" than him. People are fucking crazy.

 

[Audiophile]

Lion bar from the corner shop when I was 9 or so.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Another thread where people ironically use a term borrowed from the physical world like “piracy” then get all tied up in knots over it being called “theft” lol

Most of the value of a physical DVD is the digital copy of the film itself stored on the disk. Yes piracy is different as there’s nothing printed or shipped but it’s pretty damn close to the same effect. Hence why… it’s called piracy… which; is a type of thieving lol

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

A film camera from a museum.

Lomography - Fujica MA 1: "Lens Made in Japan"

Presented at Photokina 1982 The Fujica MA 1 is the final variant of the M-1.

www.lomography.com

 

[Putonahappyface]

Nope. In the lower end supermarkets they do, ASDA etc but they get a better class of customer in Sainsburys.

I thought of you today when I was doing the weekly shop with my girlfriend. I grabbed my usual taste the difference thick cut rump steak and for a brief moment lost my mind and scanned the nastiest steak I could, but was immediately given a bollocking from the Mrs.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

A plastic bag the other day, I had forgotten to pick it and didn't want to go through the payment process again

 

[Hudo]

the patience and sanity from both my parents.

 

[IntentionalPun]

I robbed a drug dealer in my teens for a “quarter pound” of weed. I put that in quotes as the guy had been skimping out on me for years, fool me once shame on me, fool me twice I rob you.