No, it wouldn't be like that, unless you mean the person walks into the store, buys one gallon of ice cream, takes it outside and gives it away, returns to the store and takes another gallon of ice cream but uses the receipt for the first gallon to walk out with the second gallon, then comes back for a third, fourth, fifth, twentieth, fiftiefth, hundredth, etc. gallon of ice cream all using the receipt for only the first gallon purchased. If you pay for one of something and give it away, that is fine. But you can't pay for one of something, then make hundreds of copies and give them away claiming that you already paid for it.
That is the problem with file "sharing". To truly share something, there is only one of it and when you are using it nobody else can. But if you put it out there to "share" and then hundreds of people can take it without paying for it, then you have cheated the owner out of hundreds of units of sales. One unit was purchased, but hundreds of people now have that unit.
Thank you. That is precisely my point. File sharing is not like ice cream buying or ice cream stealing because we are talking tangible vs intangible. As I said before, maybe another analogy might work better. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for ice cream analogies. In the past, I have personally referred to Saddam's Iraq as a great big ice cream cone sitting in the desert sun. If we didn't lick it and soon, it was gonna cause a great big mess. I just have trouble follwing the music to ice cream link.