No, my argument is not akin to that because piracy is not akin to theft. Downloading the beta from a public URL is not depriving Github of anything or breaking

No, my argument is not akin to that because piracy is not akin to theft. Downloading the beta from a public URL is not depriving Github of anything or breaking anything of theirs, whereas if I broke a window to steal something I've left the owner with a broken window and deprived them of the contents.