&gt;So you understand how quantitative easing stimulates the economy but you don&#x27;t see the analogy to creating more copies of information goods?<p>Quantitative easing is a very dangerous last resort action and it&#x27;s done in a very controlled way. It is also RARELY executed because printing money is really bad. Look up runaway inflation in argentina for more information.<p>If executed successfully QE will come with an inflationary cost that affects anyone who owns money in the united states.<p>I don&#x27;t see the analogy between QE and piracy because no such analogy exists, you don&#x27;t jump start a business by pirating it&#x27;s software, never seen it happen. Although, I do see the analogy between piracy and counterfeiting money.<p>&gt;They... lower taxes and increase&#x2F;maintain government spending. Which you can&#x27;t do at the same time as each other without either borrowing or creating money, and government borrowing money increases interest rates, hence the printing.<p>Sure, but that hardly helps. The main tool for easing recessions is decreasing the federal funds rate aka &quot;interest rates.&quot; You lose!<p>&gt;Then just claim copying is stealing directly so people can better understand why you&#x27;re wrong. The analogy is unnecessary and it doesn&#x27;t even hold in that context.<p>Ha! The analogy is there to HELP YOU understand why I&#x27;m right and why you&#x27;re wrong about me being wrong. It holds in context of supply and demand. The law of supply and demand applies to all products from software to food to paper money.<p>&gt;If you use forged currency to &quot;buy&quot; a loaf of bread, the store is out one loaf of bread. If you copy some information the store&#x27;s balance sheet is unchanged. The two are not equivalent and trying to ignore the difference is exactly what leads to the crazy conclusions the law makes about the calculation of damages for copyright infringement.<p>What if I make a billion copies of music and sell it for cash? Then I use the cash to buy a loaf of bread from the store? Would the store be out one loaf of bread? Did the balance sheet change? I didn&#x27;t do any work to earn that loaf of bread, so who got shafted in this transaction? the software vendor or the bread maker or someone else? Philosophical question.<p>&gt;It is merely saying that the damages are not equal to the retail price of the copy<p>So? I never said anything about this topic. It&#x27;s still theft regardless if the value of the theft is equivalent to the retail price.