&gt; Here&#x27;s a crazy thought experiment. Instead of copying some music track, how about copying a dollar bill? What happens to the dollar bill?<p>We don&#x27;t need all the baggage of monetary policy here. Let&#x27;s get to the heart of what you&#x27;re after: How about copying a gift certificate?<p>The only point you&#x27;re making is that it&#x27;s possible for a forged copy to be the instrument of a fraud. When you redeem the forged gift certificate you&#x27;re effectively stealing inventory from the store.<p>So you&#x27;re really just making the spurious claim that copying is stealing, using a detour through currency forgery to disguise the nature of your claim.<p>&gt; So in a sense, the same way copying music helps the music industry, copying dollars helps the economy!<p>Do you understand why the government prints money during a recession?