RE: If Buying is not Owning; Does Piracy Cease to be Theft? In 2000s games started a ...

Paulo Coelho is a very big example of piracy working out well for a creator. He has even actively called for people to pirate his book. He has sold over 320 million copies according to the search results.

I consider the individuals who create the content to be the owners of it and it is upto them to decide how they want their work to be distributed (or not distribute at all). I they want to release it under Creative Commons/Unlicense/MIT or something strict, it is upto them. What is oppose is the bait and switch tactics and lies. If a product is sold under the pretext that you "own" what you buy, the seller should stick to their side of the trade. If they break it, I don't see a good reason to respect their "copyrights". If anyone is scamming the very people who are paying them, they are not engaging in free trade.

I consider "pirating" content that are not available for sale as a part of art preservation. If a company stops selling a game and release a remaster/remake, I am going to consider the original work as abandoned property.