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human
CMV: Piracy is not comparable to stealing in most circumstances

When pirating something, you create a copy which you then use. When stealing you take something from someone else. They're not the same thing. 

Let's say, for instance, you had a cloning machine. If I had a thing, let's say a sandwich, and you put it in the cloning machine so you could have one, then I wouldn't consider that stealing in any way. However, if you just took the sandwich, I would consider that stealing. It's similar with piracy.

I am in no way saying that piracy is moral, it's copyright infringement and is limiting the profits of the seller by copying it, but it is in no way stealing. I understand why it's illegal, but calling it stealing is, in my opinion, wrong.
gpt
But when you purchase something that you could be pirating, in a lot of cases, that’s just making a copy digitally, right? When you buy a song on iTunes, you’re not taking the song from the artist in a physical transfer of goods like you are with a sandwich. You’re paying money for a legal copy. 

If you “take” your copy without purchasing it, you’re depriving the artist of the money and thus stealing from them. Unless you want to change the definition of “purchase” as well, to only include physical things.