[TS_aficionado]

I don't think you can compare the TS Industry with the campaigns of the record executives... two completely different industries with VAST differences in property.

That's true of course, but I was speaking in general since you were too.

property rights should be observed and respected in any case.

That was the case years ago. The age of the internet radically changed the attitudes towards this concept. That's why the music and movie industries are bleeding money: because they could not adapt to this new reality.

you don't walk into a store and steal a suit even though you know it probably cost the store a fraction of the price.

There's a difference. If you steal a suit, it disappears.

the same person that would never go on a shoplifting spree thinks nothing of downloading an entire site's content and reposting it somewhere else for others to use.

On principle, I think that's wrong, especially in the cases of smaller up-and-coming websites. But I'll be honest with you, with WMG pressuring youtube to remove songs, the RIAA's absurd campaign to stop music piracy, which includes them demanding a woman be charged hundreds of thousands of dollars for a few songs, and even US law itself that puts money above humans (5 years for pirating a movie?), the whole idea of copyright has become a grotesque capitalist monster that's devouring people alive.

Many people think that they'll never be caught or if they are, nothing will happen. This is changing rapidly

Actually it isn't. Even the RIAA is almost giving up on those lawsuits and focusing rather on pressuring ISP's to stop piracy. There's simply no use going against this new wave. Not prosecution or anything will stop it. Not even new technologies can do any good, as pirates have found ways to break every single DRM and anti-piracy measure ever conceived. The only way for property owners to survive is to find ways to adapt.

I think you would have a completely different point of view if it was your livelihood that was being whittled away by people stealing and reposting your content.

Personally I think it would be very wrong if someone did that to you. I know you have a website and it seems like an independent startup. Someone copying and pasting your content would be an immoral thing to do IMO and could not be defended. My focus, however, was on mega conglomerates steamrolling average citizens over a few songs.

Are you saying that people shouldn't have the right to protect their copyrighted material?

As is clear by now, I think they do, but not up to the insane level the RIAA is doing.