Bob Dylan got started playing covers of songs written by other people. Back then most artists did. "If only he had a shark in a suit preventing people from listening to his music, imagine how great he could have been if he only had more capital" \s.

The equivalence between cultural content sharing and theft was manufactured by the intellectual property lobby in recent history.

None of moral reasons for prohibiting theft apply to intellectual property. The marginal cost of production is zero. Society is poorer for enabling the greedy to charge admission for access to culture and information.

You're free to make your own calculus, but it seems that your opinion is in the minority here.