My terminology was ridculously mistaken, and I apologize for that. I do have a point, and I'll try to make it in a different way.

In the same way that killing time is not grounds for charges of murder, stealing ideas is not grounds for charges of theft. I'm NOT saying there shouldn't be charges - I'm saying we need a distinct and separate category. Ideas are not property, and stealing ideas is not theft. The crime is of a different and only accidentally-related kind. Copyright holders craftily advertise things like "stealing is illegal" - which it is of course, but that slogan only applies if I physically go into a shop, pick up a book or CD, and walk out without paying. If I pay for the book and photocopy it later, that's a crime too - but not the crime of theft nor anything resembling it.

If I bought the book I'll scan it..I just didn't want the hassle/work, doing it..regarding the law..I do not "share"
stuff..go out and buy yourself..so in that your keeping within some semblance of the law..same goes for CDs..go to the store and buy it..make whatever Mp3s etc..just don't share..this way..the artists get their just $due..problem is
they want you to "re" buy..for every device..! now thats greed!..

Philosophically, I don't see why ideas should not be considered property.

But, in fact, in English law copyright infringements are not considered 'thefts'. So all those ads claiming 'piracy is theft' are, in point of law, incorrect.

But that's just a matter of semantics, no? Whatever you call it, the law recognizes that people are entitled to be rewarded for their creative and imaginative output. This does seem to me to reflect the consensus ethical view -- I think most people would agree, if asked, that if I create a work of imagination it is 'mine' in _some_ kind of sense. The tricky part is working out what the full implications of that 'mine-ness' amount to.

I agree with all you wrote here.
Some of the major copyright holders, it seems, would prefer to legislate the tricky parts and the implications out of existence, enshrine the concept that my idea is "mine" in precisely the same way that my pencil is "mine", and thus create a situation that is simple but unjust and unreasonable.