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@EatingPie (I'm not going to quote because this is just meant in general)
Copyright is not useless. It gives the creator legal control over someone else making money off of their work. Copyright infringement for the purpose of resale or commercial gain is obviously theft and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.
However, piracy is a different issue altogether (I'm referring to "downloading stuff off of the internet here, not bootlegging). There is no commercial gain. Trying to make the two issues the same (or even similar) by runaway analogies makes no sense. There is no "civic duty" involved. There is no clear-cut meaning of what "copying" really means in digital terms. There is no proof of harm, though there is some evidence of help.
The reason people are ignoring the gist of your statements regarding theft is that a) it's a runaway analogy, turning rhetoric into melodrama, and b) there are no clear-cut definitions regarding these things as you seem to think there are. You're making a moral statement about a legal article which does not apply to the issue at hand.
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