Digital Pirates

This is only in the early stages of being written like everything else but you get the idea. 

The exchange of goods happens not only legally through established distribution channels, but often illegally and more often than not these are illegal products.  Many people knowingly import illegally gotten goods from across the world, not on ships or planes; but down cables. 

Digital piracy is becoming prevalent throughout the online world, which to its "customers" is very popular; although not so much with the copyright holders. The shifting of "goods" around the internet is happening all the time, both legally and illegally. Goods such as software, music and intellectual property are freely exchanged in digital formats among friends and strangers alike; the law is still undecided and debate rages on. People do not see it as a problem; it's not like their stealing it from a shop; or meeting down a dark alley for the latest knock off. Much more likely sat at home on the sofa; ill gotten gains slowly trickling down the wire to be spread on again; as well as personal gains.

Is it theft? How can the worth of a file be proven on an economic scale? Is the worth of the file is based on its size, the length of time it takes to download, or import it from the distributor. Or is it instead decided on the merit of its content. 

Can you actually put a price on something which has no physical value, what happens when it is transferred from the original source where it was created. For example; do the values of a digital file change when it is transferred between physical devices from computer to server, wire, hard disk, usb, CD, computer to internet again. Does it loose something; when you receive something instantly at no cost to yourself and is it reasonable to accept that it has less value. "