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I agree that the metaphors used in the copyright infringement argument need serious revamping: The most common metaphors, examples and hypotheticals, including those used on this and most other digital media devoted sites, tend to be based on bad analogies to digital media.
Also, trying to rule out certain words--for example, "theft"--because of their traditional usage with other kinds of products, is disingenuous at best. Words, and their meanings, haven't been carved in stone for a long time, and there are plenty of examples of a word's meaning being modified or amended to include some new or modernized aspect of life.
Instead of spending so much time in creative wordsmithing, obscuring the real matter at hand, we need to decide what harm is being done and what can be done about it (for all of this is supremely unimportant if wrongdoers can't be identified, stopped or punished).
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