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Originally Posted by Cyfr
To be fair, it's not the same.. You're breaking copyright laws etc, but you're not actualy STEALING the product.. They still have the original, and can still sell this to somebody else. If you steal a TV, then the person who owns the TV can't use it anymore, it's not there, they havnt produced a copy for them.
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You may not see yourself as stealing the product itself, but you are stealing money from the owner of said product.
As Entwisi says, people train for years and work hard to get these products to the general public.
I can't help but feeling that the reason why software is so expensive is due (in part) to piracy.
They have to recover their costs somehow.
And as a postscript, you are actually stealing the product. You didn't have it before, and you obtained it illegally.
What would you call that?