No, it’s only theft when it’s poor people doing it.

When it’s rich people, it’s fair use of a publicly available resource.

That’s pretty much the whole point.

Making use of other people’s work and likeness in a way that removes any obligations you would normally have to those people.

Just clearly define “copyright violation” for them, and they’ll craft a method that technically eludes your definition.

And traumatizing developing countries labor with what the internet has of most terrible.

Not in this case.