Doug Wilson address illegal downloads,

Downloading music is not theft of an idea, or of a thing, but under many circumstances, it is most certainly theft. Call it theft that violates the golden rule. If you had a band, and you were trying to make a living that way, would you mind if someone spread the word about your music by copying a song and sending it to a friend? No, you wouldn’t. Would you mind if someone were standing at the counter of a music store with your CD in hand, and a friend told him to put it back—that he had that CD at home that could be copied? Yes, you would mind, and you would mind because someone was stealing from you.