No, it’s not like stealing a physical item from a store.
“stealing” a digital copy of a movie, tv show or a game is like if the item you’re stealing from a store is infinitely copyable. Like the replicator from star trek…or that one episode of Sabrina the teenage witch with that box that can make a perfect copy of everything you put inside of it.
Of course I personally would never pirate anything, no matter how much streaming services increase their prices or how much they crack down on VPN usage to get around geo-restrictions, PIRACY IS BAD AND ONLY BAD PEOPLE DO IT.
I’ve never pirated anything in my whole life!
physical media is a physical it’s a finite item. digital media can be copied infinitely
the reason why physical media is getting harder and harder to find is because the copyright nazis can’t control it. If they want to memory-hole a scene, they can’t change the content of that blu-ray disc with the original version on it