Piracy not theft because its a copy..

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FayeC said:

but it's not using something different when you copy you are using the very same thing they made only just taking the digital form of it. You think that just because you aren't having a physical effect it makes have no effect on the product you've stolen? No because you aren't doing something new or offering an alternative you are just taking what someone made and giving it away for free. It's not like you make a similar game or movie or song and charge less for it. YOU take what someone already made make copies and give it away.

If I steal a disc off the shelf, then the store is out a copy. They are out that money they could have made on the copy. That is a solid loss. I can be assigned a monetary value.

Of I pirate an iso of that disc, then the store is out the money i might have spent to buy the game, this is not a monetary value and is not a loss. Is sony out of the price of a PS3 because i bought a 360 instead? No, its a rival good.

Just because there is a chance that you might not have bought the game and thus maybe no profit loss, doesn't make it ok. That's bullshit.

you also might have bought the game later. piracy is not a rival good. No competing company is making the money instead. money is not being transfered at all and the whole market loses.