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You mean should they choose to steal them? No shit, everything is free if you steal it. Not everyone wants to be a thief.
It's not theft, because it doesn't deprive the original owner of anything.
But if it did, theft from billionaire hollywood studio owners is cool and good.
You're not paying the wages of the hollywood workers, you're just increasing the funds the studios have to break the worker's strikes and further depress their conditions.
That's not how theft works. It's called intellectual property. You are depriving the creator of compensation for the work they have dedicated resources to producing.
If it wasn't, no one would ever develop any kind of software or scientific research or write a book or produce any kind of intangible work whatsoever.
This is complete nonsense fabricated by entitled children and it is exhausting.
You can justify it however you want. That's what any criminal does. It doesn't make it not theft.
Open source software developers, fan translators, emulation developers, etc.: lol.
What about them? roflmao
They make things without getting compensated for it. Same goes for everyone whose hobbies are drawing, painting, making music or any creative endeavor. I'm sure you also have hobbies, are you paid to do them?