That&#x27;s because the losses are theoretical, meaning they don&#x27;t exist in reality. You can&#x27;t lose what you don&#x27;t already have.<p>There is a difference between copy&#x2F;paste and stealing. When stealing, scarcity is implicitly assumed and one party physically loses something they had. With copy&#x2F;paste nothing is physically lost from either party and there is no scarcity.