Most people seem to like to be swayed by authority figures. That's the only way I can explain how this idea of downloading=stealing became accepted and now is repeated here like the Word of the Almighty. Authority figures, the D.C. RIAA alligator shoe lobbyists and PR hacks, invented it and put it in circulation by mouthing it repeatedly and the deep thinkers and Church Ladies are thoughtlessly parroting it from their high horses.
"Stealing intellectual property"? Ha!