Your comment and all of the replies reveal how much our culture is bound up with a notion of private property as a self-evident and inalienable right, rather th

Your comment and all of the replies reveal how much our culture is bound up with a notion of private property as a self-evident and inalienable right, rather than a as social contract. Yes, you and some others are agreeing that it isn't theft, but everyone is bending over backwards to justify that conclusion. For me, that fact that we give anyone a 100-year monopoly on something that has probably recouped the creator's "investment" a million times over reveals a flaw in our system.