I think you hit the nail on the head there with the recipe analogy. Copyright infringement is a lot more like using your own recipe to make your pizza, while de

I think you hit the nail on the head there with the recipe analogy. Copyright infringement is a lot more like using your own recipe to make your pizza, while depriving the pizza vendor of a "potential" sale, than outright "stealing" his pizza. But even this doesn't make a perfect analogy, because when someone pirates something, he may not deprive the owner of a sale, because he wouldn't afford to buy it (or make it) in the first place. However, the recipe example is still a lot closer to reality than outright theft.