Re: copyright violation = theft
According to Apple's lawyers, the plaintiffs haven't actually found anyone who actually lost a single song. And Apple didn't delete any songs, they re-formatted iPods that had been messed up by the plaintiffs' hacked software. If you had music on your iPod only with no other copies (like on your computer, or a backup copy), and you lost it through theft of the device, hardware error, or because a hacked and damaged device got reformatted, that was your own fault. But the plaintiffs didn't actually show anyone who that happened to.