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Calling piracy stealing is closer to saying "making your own beer is stealing" than it is to truth.

This has nothing to do with whether or not it should be a crime, but if it is a crime, it's something else than stealing.

Other than that, the piracy war is like the War on Drugs all over. There is no way to stop people from copying illegally, except by not making it illegal. It's completely pointless to argue over morals, when it's clear that people in the millions are just going to do it anyway. All the piracy wars is doing is destroying any moral high ground the intellectual property holders might have otherwise had.

Even North Korea has piracy, and they send you and possibly your whole family to work camps to die for that "crime". There is literally no punishment harsh enough.

In the end this will once again just mean that a lot of people will have their lives ruined for essentially nothing. (For example in Finland a pretty typical teenager recently was ordered to pay 400.000€ in damages. That person will never have a reason to work (legally anyways), and will never pay it. A lot of good that sentence did.)

And some people will have made lots of money on the business of ruining other people's lives. And that's it. This will have no impact on copying for personal use, aka "internet piracy".