"What gives you the right to take someone else's painstakingly created artistic creation and give it away for free to thousands of people, depriving them of the

"What gives you the right to take someone else's painstakingly created artistic creation and give it away for free to thousands of people, depriving them of the exclusive right to sell their own work." In most cases i read about it's more a matter of the current copyright holder versus the facilitator. Not a matter of the creator versus the actual downloader. That is exactly the weird paradox that has been going on, especially with the infamous Pirate Bay. The users think they are a super server with super hero admins that "give back to the man". The justice system thinks some super tech criminal is earning millions. They think that, because organisations like the MPAA give out an estimate on what "could have been earned if all those people would actually pay full price for the content they are now consuming". Numbers are magic.. especially if there's a currency sign before them.