Imagine a super intelligent speed reading human in a library. If they read all the books and are able to understand, conceptualize and summarize that knowledge for others, is it theft? The books weren't stolen, after all, just read. The knowledge in the books wasn't taken away; it's still there for others to read.

I personally do not believe knowledge can be stolen.

Knowledge being 'owned' isn't some noble truth. To me, information being able to be shared freely online is the noble thing.

That various companies such as Google are working to kill. They're an advertising company that is making it increasingly clear they no longer want to link to their competition. Competition being defined as any source of information that is not Google.

Intellectual property is private property whose time has come.