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If you're not stealing digital media from corporations when you download without paying, you're not stealing from indie creators when you're doing the same. Have some consistency in your justification at least.
Reread my post. You didn't do a good enough job the first time.
Dude, either taking something without paying is theft, or it isn't...you're making an arbitrary distinction for the sake of your own moral or something IDK.
Just like everything else in life, it's not a binary situation. You can't say "either it is, or isn't stealing! Circumstance doesn't matter!" because circumstance always matter.
If you come at me with the intent to kill me, and I kill you in self defense, that's not murder. It would be wholly ignorant to say "well you tried to kill the guy who was trying to kill you, so it's murder! Circumstance doesn't matter!" That would be the answer of a child.
The argument of Piracy has never been one of "oh, well, it's not theft." Of course its theft. You'd have to be in deep denial to make that argument. It's not your IP. The argument of Piracy is that taking shit from corpos doesn't fucking matter--no one is getting hurt. As soon as you stop taking from corpos and taking from the little guy, like indie artists, you're just a fuckin' thief. And that's not moral.