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Don't refer to copyright infringement as theft, it isn't. The material isn't being "stolen", it's being copied without recompense.

And rape in prison isn't rape; it's just being rectally-challenged. Stop with the Clinton word games already.

I don't think giving away something you own is stealing.

If you've signed an agreement that you won't do so (eg software), then it's obviously wrong.

But how can someone else tell me what I can and cannot do with my own property?

BS. Study up and learn about copyrights. It isn't theft, it's infringement.
Making an "illegal" (even that terminology is technically incorrect) copy isn't theft. Infringement includes the unauthorized or unlicensed copying of a work subject to copyright, it's basically performing the exclusive rights of the copyright holder without their authorization.
17 U.S.C. § 106

Sec. 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works

Subject to sections 107 through 120, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:

(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;

(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;

(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;

(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;

(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and

(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.

Your rape analogy doesn't apply, and is poorly constructed. The Clinton reference is meaningless, superfluous and strictly designed to inflame. Pretty lame.