Lol what? I said they were distributing pirated works - if your gonna make an argument at least read the comment chain. Distributing pirated works can have the same impacts as theft. To say the two are completely unrelated is nonsense.

> I said they were distributing pirated works not that it was theft.

You did say, and this is a direct quote:

> Stealing from artists and authors is right?

To which someone replied: "Thoughts cannot be stolen", followed by some justification for that claim, to which you again responded.

This entire thread of discussion was about whether it is theft or not.

Now you’re just pulling out quotes from nowhere. Again, piracy can have the same impacts as theft, and distributing peoples art and works without their consent erodes peoples ability to create.

You are misstating the original post as if it were about the notion of theft, it wasn’t it was arguing that copyright can’t exist (when it clearly does).

If we lived in a post-scarcity world then I would agree there would be no reason to enforce copyright, but that is a fantasy, we don’t and people have to earn a living. There is a reason all countries strive to enforce copyright and that is because it fundamentally protects creation and innovation.