Piracy not theft because its a copy..

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superchunk said:

It's logic is wholefully thawed yet it is the root of many people reasoning to continue being software pirates. While you are not removing the original product, you are removing profit from the company and indirecly future income for the software developers.

 

You are wrong: none of them is using that as a reason to continue pirating. They pirate because: lulz free stuff, no consecuences! Whatever they elaborate upon it it's just a face-saving facade. 

The problem is the governments actually enjoy the situation: instead of a bored mass of unemployed or underpaid people, there's now an entertained mass of unemployed or underpaid people which makes the whole thing more manageable.

I work on the "cultural industries" field and I could tell many stories about how "the average joe" is being hit and hard by this but hey nothing will convince people to say no to their free warez.