[Nursie]

Copying something does not remove the thing from the original owner, hence these are different acts.

Referring to such things as theft or stealing is lazy and incorrect, regardless of relative severity.

The fact you use the term “stealing” in your justification of the act being “stealing” kinda points to your own circular reasoning there, rather than a good defence.

We can agree it’s wrong without polluting the semantic space. Otherwise we may as well just call everything “murder” or “terrorism” and be done with it.