Without details of the hypothetical scenario made here, we cannot know if that's the case. If the ticket purchaser was unable to see the circus because their flight home was delayed, the circus has no obligation to refund them. If attendance of "Circus 2" is offered to the purchaser due to the cancellation of "Circus 1" under the conditions of the original ticket purchase, then it's unlikely to be an unfair contact.
There are all kinds of details missing here that we can freely speculate about.
There is a difference here between lending or resale of a physical product. Can you sell a second hand book? Typically, yes. Can you do mental gymnastics to draw a parallel to reselling a digital version? Evidently, also yes.
There is more nuance to it than that. The copyright holder still owns whichever copies are made, whether or not they are made with their permission. One could argue that by making a duplicate, you have taken possession of a copy without consent from its owner.
As for your other example about a copyright owner revoking access; this is completely subject to the terms of sale of that item. Without details of the license agreement it's impossible to say if the terms were breached.
That's not a fair example, because 5 Euros has an intrinsic value. The theft here is of intellectual property. Here's an analogy:
When you take a book from a book store without paying for it, you are stealing.
When you take a book from a book store without paying for it, make an exact replication of it and return the original, you are stealing intellectual property.
What exactly do you mean with it requiring Apple's servers? All of the services Beeper integrates with require it to communicate with the servers those services belong to.
The majority of comments in this community are at the level of a 12-year-old, offering no insight whatsoever, with snarky remarks like, "doesn't affect me, arr," "just sail the high seas," with even the title appending "piracy is justified." That's terrific for all those commenters, but I had hoped that the comment section here in a technology community on Lemmy would be more sophisticated than my high school class.
It should come as no surprise to anybody that KPMG, Deloitte, E&Y and PwC produce absolute garbage after the countless scandals they've all been in. The issue here isn't so much that the report was buried, but that politicians overtly take kickbacks for securing government projects with them.
Neither, I guess? Both have advantages and disadvantages.