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With software and music media etc. you don't buy the physical good (the CD, DVD etc. which you seem to be talking about) but the right to use it, listen to it etc. One could argue though that this mode of thinking is inherently broken because you usually don't get the right to use it, listen to it etc. under any condition but only with the right software/hardware equipment. And since you're usually not allowed to make copies or to transfer it to another system, the correct use of the good equates the good anyway.

Rebuttal: Piracy is theft because pirates violate the conditions under which artists/developers made their work available to the public. If they don't like those conditions, they shouldn't be using it but create their own stuff. (Please note, I explicitly exclude software patents or similar constructs whose only raison d'être is to keep competitors from making their own stuff.)

Justification: Piracy is not theft because most of the profits doesn't go to the creator/artist/developer but to corporate management/share holders who cannibalize their zoo of creator/artist/developer they keep in the backyard. Only very few members of their creator/artist/developer zoo become stars and get some publicity in order to keep customers believe in the system that they pay honor the creativity of the creators. The truth is though that there are plenty of creative people around who can do well without the corporate PR machinery.