>>546874
Not this shit again.
Piracy == Stealing is a fallacy. It's like saying Solar Panels steals energy from the sun.
The very core definition of stealing is to remove someone's owned property from their possession without intending to return it.
Digital goods can be copied perfectly and indefinitely, thus the only way you can "steal" a digital item is to remove the original file and all existent copies on the entire internet, which is impossible, additionally you cannot "return" a digital copy of something so that part of the fallacy falls apart as well.
Piracy is to make a copy of information in a way that does not conform to the original author's wishes in regards to copies of their goods.
A more suitable example of piracy being translated to a real world action would be to steal a recipe from a restaurant.
By using the recipe (file) and your own raw materials (hardware) you can produce an exact copy of the restaurant's meal (media experience) for "free", you can also share the meal with your friends.
Some may argue that the restaurant loses money on this, however you haven't stolen any raw goods or cooked meals from them, they can still serve your meal/raw materials to another customer.
What you have deprived them of however is "potential revenue" that they may or may not have gotten from you (you could have chosen to go to McDonald's instead).
If piracy were stealing then schools would have been outlawed because all that knowledge they teach you is always in some way, shape or form the intellectual property of some professor/scientist/scholar who lived long ago, and thus by law of inheritance, now the intellectual property of their children/grandchildren/grand-grandchildren/etc.