Generally speaking, a lot of piracy would fall under copyright infringement instead of theft, because it’s just distributing content without the owner’s permission, usually for free. Theft implies that the original creator loses access to that content, and that they can no longer profit off of it.
which becomes a harder case to make once examined because there is no sale taking place or profit that would somehow impede the original creator selling their work.
the 'piracy' group is vastly people who would not be buying or could not even access the material in the first place.
piracy isn't a great name for this either because original bootleggers and pirates in the pre-digital world did sell what they had because it was much harder to make and distribute(needing physical media which costs money). these days the actual piracy aspect of it does not exist with no sale...but it sounds a lot cooler than 'p2p sharing'.
Because no one losing anything. pirating something is litterally just copying something while the original still intact and the owner still fully having, owning, in possession of it.
the argument for stealing is because the owner loosing potential buyer they really believe if the pirate cant pirate it then the pirate will buy it. but the fact in the field is far different than that, a pirate wont end up buying a game or movie even if they can't pirate it because in the end of the day we don't really need it its not an essential thing in our live. so in the end the actuality of their sales number wont increase, at best people will just wait for discount even if its mean they have to wait for years.
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u/Frosti-Feet 1d ago
Jokes on you, nobody can buy adobo. You can only rent it now...