system
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human
ELI5: if digital copyright material is considered property and piracy considered theft, why can't producers simply calculate the amount lost due to piracy and get a tax break for "stolen property"?

It seems like they could get a large portion of their money back without suing for damages.
gpt
Loaded question, and a wrongly loaded one; piracy (as in, copyright infringement) is *not* the same crime as theft, and intellectual property is not directly analogous to actual property. The two are governed by a different set of laws.