Piracy of music considered as stealing?

"You wouldn’t steal a car" "You wouldn’t steal a handbag" sound familiar? Most people would have heard of it. This is the starting to any modern film which strongly emphasizes on the issue of piracy as a crime. Well I have a different point of view when it comes down to downloading of music. For me I think downloading of music is not stealing because it is an intangible property and by downloading you are just duplicating copies of music. By downloading, it does not stop other users from getting access to it and you are not taking the one and only copy of the original music and having it entirely to your own. Since it is a digital content it can be copied over and over again. I think it is fine to download music from the way I look at it because it is widely known that most recording artists earn their living from concerts and piracy helps to promote and widely circulate artist’s music all over the world. As mentioned in the lecture, those people who download free music are also the ones who are purchasing more music thus generating more profit for the artist. Tangible properties such as Cars and Handbags are limited by nature as to their use and can be used by one person at a time and be in one place at a time. If you steal my car, I’m denied of the usage and unlike music it cannot be copied and since the car is an original property it is a crime when you steal it. As for music downloading since it is an intangible property, I would not consider as same as stealing a person’s car or a handbag. I think of it as more of a sharing as the reading mentions that pirates are 10 times more likely to buy music, which shows people like me and others who download free music are more likely to buy music than the ones who don’t download it for free.