This is why you’re wrong: [Dowling v. United States](https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/473/207/ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/473/207/)

This is why you’re wrong: [Dowling v. United States](https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/473/207/ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/473/207/) Tl;dr: Supreme Court ruled bootlegged/pirated media does not constitute theft as it does not deprive the legal owner of his/her property. That’s why they had to invent the term—“Copyright infringement”