Except that yes, yes it is stealing. It’s super easy and oddly socially acceptable in many circles, much in the same way that speeding and jaywalking are socially acceptable, but it’s still stealing when you “fileshare” instead of purchasing or doing nothing.
Don’t fool yourself into anything different; you just do yourself a disservice.
This image doesn’t say file sharing is a good thing. This image is merely attempting to show that there is both a practical difference as well as a difference in severity. There is an important difference between all of these methods of “theft” as you call it.
I don’t fool myself into thinking that my pirating of some software and movies is legal. I do know that my pirating of said items is not loosing the owner any money as I don’t have any money to spend on it anyways. It’s a fallacy to assume that all shared copies of a media are a lost sale for the original owner.
