Fantastic Anti-piracy Statement

[Bridge]

Thats a really bad example Bridge. Though I understand what you meant. You could say that piracy is technically its not theft. But in reality you can "murder" someone's copy either. The copy factor is only easily done on the virtual world. The effects caused by pirating a game are worse than stealing it. because if you steal you'll be the only one carrying that illegal copy. If you pirate it however. The copy of the game shall inevitably multiply to millions causing the exact same damage for a company as if an army went to the game store and took every copy of the game again and again throwout years!

Slippery slope much? There are many ways to copy something without sharing it. Nobody is arguing that torrents are completely legal. Actually, downloading torrents of copyrighted material with a upload speed of anything above 0 kbps (which is not possible with many programs), is highly illegal. Even if you share just a megabyte of it, you can be charged with distributing copyrighted material, which is a crime.

EDIT: As I've said before, it's not the same thing. Imagine that a company has a budget of $50,000 which is easily regained after the first month of release. After that, people stop buying the product and start pirating it exclusively. For the company, it is like the product never existed. If, however, an army went into the store and took millions of copies, the company (technically speaking the retailer) will be millions of dollars in the red, facing certain bankruptcy. It's not the same thing, and the damage is not even remotely comparable.