Theft is a very forced metaphor for software piracy

[Katilian]

Millennium said:
Standard invalid bleating from a common thief who wants to feel as though he isn't scum. There is nothing worthy of respect in this article, nor in the viewpoint that spawned it. Software pirates are thieves, and the connection is obvious to anyone who hasn't deluded themselves into thinking they're somehow entitled to steal games.

Ahh, the good ol' "If you think piracy isn't stealing, then you must think its piracy is good" stance. Quick question. If piracy is stealing, then is making a back up copy of a game also stealing? In my country, making a back up copy of a game I have purchased is copyright infringement, so what have I stolen to call this stealing? Also here, up until 2006, copying music from a CD to an MP3 player was also copyright infringement (even though MP3 players had been on sale for over half a decade). Were all those people also stealing?

Very few people who argue that piracy is not stealing think piracy is ok, just that the term stealing is incorrect.