This whole copyright thing is a bit of a red herring. Piracy is a proven negative for the industry, and it's illegal. You can't suggest that something costs too much because it can be acquired illegally for free. ALL videogames, movies, and music can be acquired illegally for free. You're not entitled to free stuff just because you have an internet connection.
And to chase the red herring:
The issue with the copyright argument are that people are conflating the meanings of stealing and robbery. While all robbery is stealing, not all stealing is robbery. Robbery is taking a physical object, thus removing it from another person's possession without authorization. Stealing is a wider term; and it includes plagiarism and copyright infringement. Stealing is essentially when a person takes something that doesn't belong to them; this includes making unauthorized copies of someone else's ideas, works, or data.
Generally, the content creation industry is where people create content to duplicate and sell, it's not a physical object, but virtual goods can often take much more work to produce and create a far higher demand than many physical objects. A content creator has the sole right to decide how their work is used, they can sell that right to another, or copy and distribute those copies (it's how the whole media industry functions). A person duplicating the work without authorization is stealing because: A. They're taking the right of the content creator/owner to reproduce the work. B. Taking a copy of data without authorization.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
