missworded:

Theft of books digitally is in no way the same thing as a library. The number of people who have to drive to the library and check out a physical book one at a time is not even remotely comparable to the thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people who can download the digital copy of a book…

You know, I’m getting tired of people saying this stuff for one reason and one reason ONLY.

Copyright Infringement Is Not Theft. It is INFRINGEMENT. As in, infringing on your rights as the creator to be the only person who COPIES your work, or who is allowed to license those rights to someone else who does it for you. 

They are not thefts. They are COPIES. Nothing has been taken from you, personally. You still have the original or whatever. You want to argue that all those copies equals lost sales? Prove it, because this kind of half-assed hyperbole got us into the colossal clusterfuck that is SOPA and PIPA.

At the very least, would you quit this idiocy and use the right terminology. If the actual law states that copyright infringement is not considered theft (see Dowling v. United States, 1985) then you have no reason to call it as such except for cheap scaremongering, like the RIAA et al.