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If the act of buying doesn't grant ownership to a thing, the act of pirating isn't stealing. Thus, not nigger behavior.
Any attempt to compare piracy to theft inherently falls flat due to software not being a physical thing that you "own". As a funny side note, picrel ironically uses a pirated font.
Anti-piracy laws are a relic of the past from back when the entertainment industry had to grapple with the idea that digital media are susceptible to copying.
No one even has an idea how much damage "piracy" causes, thus all the figures you see are guesstimates at best. You can't know whether someone who pirated your software hasn't also bought it, as is often the case with entertainment media. The formula for damage has been and will always be "1 download = 1 unit of damage" which is way too simple.
There is no claim against piracy that doesn't rely on guesswork, slippery slope fallacies and misplaced appeals to morality.
Unless you generate revenue from offering pirated content and thus compete with the original creators of said content, you are commiting a victimless crime. Download what you want when you want and support who you want to support.
If AI can just take stuff, then you can too.