Words mean something and there is a reason why right holders tried to coin this (pillaging, murdering) piracy to give it a bad connotation. Then the various "pirate parties" said if you want to call large swaths of the population pirates, then we will be taking that word from you (somewhat similar to pride movements).

For the record, I have little to no issue with "unauthorized copies", for the most part. I just disagreed with some of the phrasing.

Secrets can be stolen, but they're not missing after.

Spies steal secrets, not copyright infringement them :)

You technically lose the secret in this case, since it's not a secret anymore.

...assuming the word has only one usage -- which it does not. The word can also be correctly used to describe an act of appropriation.

"Stolen" is not necessarily a synonym of "theft"

To me it sounds like propaganda against information sharing, by coining negative words, like "piracy":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#%22Pira...

The courts ruled on this last century. At least as far back as the 80's when people were stealing HBO from satellites with TVRO dishes in their backyard.

It's time to stop beating that horse.