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In reply to the discussion: According to your values, is illegally downloading a song, TV show, or movie immoral? [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)and making an unauthorized copy. That doesn't mean it's right, but it does mean that the moral question is different.
As far as your photography remaining unique, that's different also from downloading a song. It's closer to a privacy issue (though not exactly that either). Songs that are recorded for sale are obviously not meant to be kept unique. But even in your case, I imagine you would much rather someone (particularly someone anonymous on the internet) made an unauthorized copy than someone stealing the original so that you couldn't enjoy it either.
Intellectual property is simply not the same as physical property. Laws exist to protect intellectual property, and they exist for a reason, but it's not the same moral question as breaking into someone's house and stealing physical objects.