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Originally Posted by xmas13
A pirate is not a thief? What is it then?
Are you writing a new alternative dictionary?
Do you borrow a song when you download it? You take it, you use it, you often keep it, and without paying a single cent.
Do you know how much money it costs to produce a popular song or popular movie nowadays? Do you think companies produce $100,000,000 movies so anyone can watch them at home for free with a pirated dvd, using their home cinema system acquired last Christmas?
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If you want to argue that copyright infringement is bad, argue that copyright infringement is bad.
Just because copyright infringement might be bad, however, does not mean that "theft" is the appropriate term.
The mere act of copyright infringement does not necessarily result in any tangible damages. It is entirely possible for someone to commit copyright infringement upon works which he would not have bought either way, with the copyright infringement thus resulting in no damages whatsoever.
Now, it can still be argued that this is immoral. However, this would require other arguments than the ones needed to deem physical theft immoral.
Simply put: don't just commit a logical fallacy and call it theft. Instead, make a strong argument explaining why copyright infringement itself is immoral.