> Of course it's analogous to theft, because someone very literally ends up with less money in their pocket

Thats a very slippery slope

Freeing slaves was theft

When Ghandy led subjects of India of the British Empire to the sea to mine salt, that was theft - mining salt was illegal for them

Using electromagnetic spectrum without a lisence is theft

Are you using the oxygen molecule I produced without paying? Is your house casting a shadow on my land, blocking sunlight i am entitled to?

What about ownership of airspace, 'ownership' of international waters and economic exclusive zones, ownership of orbits in space, ownership of the atmosphere and 'ownership' of pollution?

All ownership is a social construct - piracy is a symptom of the overall system being crap