Gozo, why discuss written laws? Written laws are fabrications made to infuse artificial restrictions on things that exist in reality. Let&#x27;s talk about intrinsic laws. Like the law of gravity or the Law Of Supply And Demand:<p>When you increase demand you increase the value of a product, when you increase supply you decrease the value of a product. Basic economics. Let&#x27;s take this concept and apply it to money. If you print money you increase the money supply. When you increase the money supply you decrease the value of money.<p>Thus the action of counterfeiting is actually theft. By printing money you lower the value of other peoples&#x27; money and thus you are stealing value from other people. That&#x27;s why counterfeiting is bad. Written laws on forgery and fraud don&#x27;t cause this phenomenon they are a consequence of it.<p>The same academic principle works for piracy. Get it? You copy a product you devalue the product by increasing supply. These are principles of Basic economics and Intrinsic law that permeates the fabric of reality. In essence: When you pirate a product you are stealing it, there is no way around it.<p>Why is it not ok to pirate money but it&#x27;s totally ok to pirate music? I&#x27;ll tell you why. The issue touches the roots of humanity&#x27;s morally ambiguous nature: When you pirate money, you harm everyone who owns money and face the ire of the entire population.<p>When you pirate music you harm only the creator of the music and you probably got a lot of friends who do the same thing. Significantly easier to do from an ethical standpoint. But how do you face yourself? What does a typical weak, cowardly human tell himself when he commits a crime? A typical human will create an overly-complicated and sophisticated logical delusion in order to justify the action to himself. Stupid logic like &quot;downloading an mp3 makes me more likely to buy the track&quot; are typical examples. In fact, you can likely witness a version of this overly-complicated logic in your response to this post.<p>Is that enough discourse for you? Yours is the lazy rebuttable without foundation in reality.