Originally posted by Bernhard
I can get a lot of things for free. I want a new bike. I'll steal it. I want some pasta. I'll steal it. I want Call of Duty for the PC. I'll steal it. It's the exact same thing; you take something you haven't paid for. The fact that it's easier to get away with downloading something instead of stealing it physically doesn't make it any less morally wrong.
Sure it does, the people who you stole the bike and pasta from don't have a bike or any pasta anymore. The company you stole Call of Duty from still has the same number of copies in stores as they did before you downloaded it. Doesn't make it terribly right, but it's not nearly as wrong as stopping someone from eating/riding/selling(if you stole from a store) something.