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Look at it this way:
Copying and printing money is neither thievery. But by doing so, the more amount of money on the markets will reduce the value of the original currency. The ones who worked for their money will get less for their work, and the ones who copied it, did it by scam... not work.
If it was physical thievery of money, you have the opportunity to take your stolen money back and thereby there will be much less economic damage than a situation with copies out of control. Physical thievery will also not affect the total amount on the markets.
So, copying has the potential to generate much more economic damage than thievery, and that's why copying and printing money is punished hard by laws.
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