"Stealing phyical items is just something different then duplicating them and giving away those dupicates."
I don't buy that. The cost of duplication is effectively zero, so the fact that you do it rather than the software producer is trivial. the fact is, if someone puts time and effort into a product to design and develop it, and you take a copy, and enjoy its benefits without payment, then that's wrong.
If the ideology you advocate for yourself as a consumer does not scale up to the entire market (everyone copying stuff and nobody paying) then you are (by definition) freeloading off other people. You can't download a hacked copy of photoshop 6 unless there are enough legit buyers of that product to pay for its development. |