I download music and movies, and other stuff. The way I see it, its not technically "stealing". I'm not taking any profit away from them. If I didn't download the content, then I still wouldn't buy it. So either way, they don't get my money. Besides that, I'm not adding to their costs. It costs them NOTHING for someone to go off and make a copy of a song digitally. Hell you could make 1,000,000 copies of a song and it wouldn't cost anything to the artist/distributor. Its completely different from actually stealing a physical CD, because the physical CD has more costs in making the CD, labels, case, etc.

Your argument for "oh would you like your car to get stolen then" doesn't make any sense here. If I could make infinite copies of my car, like I can with a song or a movie, why should I be worried when someone steals 1? I can always make more, and at least some people will buy it. But, if I only had 1 copy of my car, I'd be pretty pissed if someone stole it.

I'm not saying that its right to download music and movies and stuff, I'm just saying that its on a completely different level morally and legally from stealing something like a high-end rare Ferrari or the Mona Lisa or something.

Also when I download, I know to take certain precautions to protect myself. Just like you take precautions when you streetrace.