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The difference is that with digital goods the resources are typically on hand, and the computer takes care of managing a lot of it for you.

The difference is that ideas and digital goods should be public "property" because nobody loses when they're shared, unlike physical goods.

You also need a set of resources before you pirate a game, including an internet connection, enough disk space, and a computer that can run the game.

You need to distinguish between the physical manifestation of that idea or digital good and the good itself. The physical manifestation takes resources to copy, as you point out. The abstract part does not. If you're paying for the raw materials to print the car -- or for the internet connection and disk space -- then I don't have any problem with it, because you're paying for the resources you spent.

Here's an example of something that's different if it's physical or abstract:

http://i0.wp.com/memecollection.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/i-made-this-comic.jpg

Imagine I put on a performance. You pay me to attend. Then you go and put on the exact same performance, and charge people to attend. I don't think there is any problem with this. The resources I spent to put on the show were time and maybe paying something for the venue. The performance itself doesn't belong to me.

Us both putting on the same show -- even if we're both doing it in the same town -- that's not stealing, it's competition.

http://i.imgur.com/Xpr7FDc.png?noredirect

There are likely some markets where you're even buying the pirated copy, just not for the full price and a cut doesn't go to the company who made the game.

In that case, whoever made the pirated copy spent the resources on the cd they burned, or whatever. Same deal, I have no problem with it.