[taway1237]

1. Piracy is theft.

[imchillyb]

Piracy, of actual -tangible- goods, is theft.

Piracy of digital content is -literal- copying. The original item is not modified or changed. Copying is not theft.

The politicians, media journalists, and corporations spent enough monies to brainwash children into believing copying is theft. It isn't.

Never was. Never is.

[Mistletoe]

Digital content of songs and movies is exactly the same as the way you consume it. It is the tangible thing. It’s like having a perfect atom to atom reconstruction of the Mona Lisa you can put on your wall and stealing it. People’s jobs depend on the money made from selling digital media and making more digital media takes money. You can try to abstract it away but it doesn’t make sense. Maybe the prices or agreements aren’t fair but the blacksmith can charge whatever he wants for what he makes.

[lotsofpulp]

I would amend this to piracy of media within a reasonable copyright term of say 10 or at most 20 years is theft.

[matheusmoreira]

Wrong.

[Woshiwuja]

No.