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< Buddhism, the Second Precept and Piracy
i personally follow the words "if purchasing isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing". which is to say if you have infinite of something, and yet you still refuse for someone to own a single tiny piece of that infinity, then stealing is not immoral.
there's also the question about what about artists who encourage piracy of their works? many smaller games devs do it, they believe that people deserve to experince their work even if they can't pay for it, however publishers do not like this. same goes with movies, weird al's doco he encouraged piracy and even seeded the torrent himself, again though im sure the studio did not like this. and books too, the animorphs author had to go through a legal battle to be allowed to have her own books for free on her site and she lost (iirc).
its a complicated question in a world where things that aren't physical, and things that are essentially infinite, exist.