Although to me "categorizing the re-transmission of someone else's imaginary property in the same bucket as counterfeiting currency" also has a pretty strong rhetorical effect.
They're both pretty similar actually. With money, its just that the government owns the copyright.
If we're really going to conflate counterfeiting currency with streaming then I'll get out the ketchup and my finest silver to stick a fork in the very well-done HN.
Well the magnitude of offense is of course completely different, but counterfeiting bills is just a form of copyright infringement.