Stealing isn't taking financial value from someone else, it's taking advantage of someone else's work without providing some form of recompense. When you pirate

Stealing isn't taking financial value from someone else, it's taking advantage of someone else's work without providing some form of recompense. When you pirate a film, you're saying to all the actors, director(s), all the people involved in making the film, all the people who backed it financially, and all the people who pushed it from idea to finished product that whilst you think they did a good enough job to warrant spending two hours of your time watching and enjoying it, you don't value the (often) years of their lives and the huge sums of money they put in to bring you that two hours of experience. If it was worth watching, then you should give something in return. Otherwise it's theft. Not financial theft, as as you noted, it's potential profit they've lost. But it's still theft nonetheless. That aside, I agree with the rest.