> if you could download and 3D print a car, risk free, you probably would steal it. That wouldn't be theft, that would be making your own care. Theft necessari

> if you could download and 3D print a car, risk free, you probably would steal it. That wouldn't be theft, that would be making your own care. Theft necessarily involves depriving the person you stole something from of having it. It'd be theft if you downloaded the blueprint and then deleted it from their servers so you had the only remaining copy; that's theft. Copying is not theft.