There are two answers to this one technical and one social. The technical answer is that nobody has yet managed to invent a rights managements system that can't be cracked or bypassed. read more
Piracy is illegal because it is copyright infringement, which is the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials. Also, if you’re talking about internet piracy or software piracy, that is not theft/stealing. read more
Right now, there are 86,784 people pirating The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and 58,543 people pirating The Wolf of Wall Street. One day, one site. More people than the Rose Bowl can hold -- just today, or this week, or however long someone "seeds," or "leeches," and then dumps the file. read more