This is just awful. "They've made it very clear that they consider digital copies of physical property to be just as valuable as the original." What is an "or

This is just awful. "They've made it very clear that they consider digital copies of physical property to be just as valuable as the original." What is an "original"? With food I understand. smell:food::sound:coins. Or even smell:food::picture:money. So in this case, picture:money::torrent:?? What is the 'original'? The physical medium containing the footage original? A live performance? If you were to pay for the movie - just as one might pay to eat actual food - what would you pay for? If not a copy of the movie's bits on your hard drive, what? Or do you think nothing at all? The original article was saying that there used to be a scarcity in the act of watching a movie: you had to go to the theater. Now that scarcity, the problem of "how shall I procure this entertainment" has been solved. But movies themselves still cost money. Movies themselves are scarce! We can watch movies as easily as we breathe air. But we cannot make movies as easily.