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How can it be stolen if the owner still has it?
What file-sharing folks "steal" are legal fictions not tangible objects.
Media corps steal from us all privatizing bits of the culture and selling them back to us. Perhaps in the old days of reasonable copyright arguments could be made but really what is my moral obligation to respect the rights of say the Avengers film's makers? The film is based on characters Marvel stole from Kirby (characters that should be public domain by now). So when a person downloads that film is he stealing from Joss Weldon, Stan Lee or Jack Kirby?