There's an old joke about the farmer, a man of few words, who went off to church alone one Sunday because his wife was sick and couldn't leave the house. When he returned, the wife questioned him on the sermon. Stealing is a lot like that.
Most people are against it.
More important, most people will gladly and emphatically tell you that they don't steal. What they don't tell you is that their definition of what constitutes stealing may differ significantly from yours. I bring this all up because many people, mostly recording industry executives and performers, will tell you that they consider downloading copyrighted music from the Internet to be stealing, while a significant majority of Internet users who were surveyed feel otherwise. But that sad fact aside, there is more at work here than a clash of interests, with each side trying to maximize its own benefit. When I discuss stealing in classes I teach, I like to pose two similar situations to my students.