No. I am not comparing to wage theft

Then I'll try a third time. My claim is that theft deprived the owner of their item. Piracy does not do this, ergo it is something different than theft.

My second argument is to preempt the inevitable "pure economic loss" claim. It's a tangent, and is not a claim that 100% piracy is sustainable, simply that the assertion that piracy causes commercial products to fail (as piracy exists today) is factually and demonstrably wrong.

My third point, which you again chose not to address, is that equating piracy to theft is as stupid as comparing speeding to murder. They are different crimes and should be treated as such. You know what an actual comparison to theft is, which is the whole basis of the OP? A product a user has paid for being removed by the publisher because they chose to incorporate drm that is no longer sustainable, wonder why nobody calls this theft (in fact it is closer to theft than piracy). Oh wait no I don't, I spelled it out in the first post - piracy = theft is propaganda to hurt the little guy, the big players are manipulating the system such that they are above the same laws we play by.

Be fine with piracy or don't, I couldn't give a shit either way. That is irrelevant to the points I've raised.