The cost of producing the DVD is close to nothing. It's not like stealing a physically hard-to-produce object. You're paying for the IP. DVDs don't operate i

The cost of producing the DVD is close to nothing. It's not like stealing a physically hard-to-produce object. You're paying for the IP. DVDs don't operate in a scarcity model. Stealing a DVD really is almost equivalent to pirating a movie. The fact that the store is deprived of a physical item is pretty much irrelevant to the argument; they probably would have disposed of many unsold copies of the DVD anyway.