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Of course copying is not stealing, but everything else.
But if a tangent from the post, but you raise a valid point. Copying is not theft, I suppose piracy is a better term? Which on an individual level I am fully in support of, as are many authors, artists and content creators.
However, I think the differentiation occurs when pirated works are then directly profited off of — at least, that’s where I personally draw the distinction. Others may has their own red lines.
e.g. stealing a copy of a text book because you can’t otherwise afford is fine by me; but selling bootleg copies, or answer keys directly based off it wouldn’t be OK.
If your entire work is derived from other people's works then I'm not okay with that. There's a difference between influence and just plain reproduction. I also think the way we look at piracy from the consumer side and stealing from the creative side should be different. Downloading a port of a sega dreamcast game is not the same as taking someone else's work and slapping your name on it.