Is Digital Piracy Really Theft?

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Just think, what would you say if someone cloned your bank card and weekly took $100 from your account.  Then handed it over to their friends to do the same?  When you asked them why, they told you "everyone else does so they just joined the crowd".  Beside we can't all be caught right?  Would you then say "well, if everyone did it you did not mind"?

  • The question is, just because everyone else is a goat, so should you be also?  Are you not able to think for your self?  It seems that there is no right or wrong just can you be caught or not.

Would someone who really appreciates music steal from the artist, because they have lots of money right?  Is piracy really a form of malicious envy?  Beside what does it cost the artist anyway they can make more music right? 
If you need a burst water-pipe fixed would you question how the man who came to repair it obtained his skill?    
Few people would openly admit to being a racist, even if they did and said racist things.  They would use many platitudes that no one with an ounce of common sense would believe to justify their words and actions. 
Artists these days have increased the fees for performances for their real fans to compensate.  Many can listen to music without cost, but to steal what is provided at no cost is bizarre.   
In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it or revenue from their property.
In a recent speech, for example, US President Barak Obama claimed:
"We’re going to aggressively protect our intellectual property […] Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people […] It is essential to our prosperity. But it’s only a competitive advantage if our companies know that someone else can’t just steal that idea and duplicate it."

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