[johnny99k]

Piracy is not stealing, it's counterfeiting. If you steal a car, the car company might lose money, but can make up the losses. With counterfeiting, it devalues the original, which has the possibility of destroying the entire product/business.

[Marsymars]

I don’t think a definition of counterfeiting that includes unlicensed stock photography is an especially salient one.

[jobs_throwaway]

> With counterfeiting, it devalues the original, which has the possibility of destroying the entire product/business.

The evidence says that piracy actually increases the value of the original as pirates spend more money on the media than they would without the piracy option

[randomdata]

It is neither stealing or counterfeiting, it is copyright infringement.