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So let me see if I get this right. There's some vast conspiracy amongst the randomly selected slashdot modders to cover up the truth and promote a "self server corporate agenda" (which unless you're a CEO or a board member of a corporation doesn't seem to make sense to me but what do I know?). The answer to this problem is to get rid of it so I have to root through every post some 13 year old kid makes to find something interesting or to place the modding system into the hands of some enlightened elite group of people who know better than everyone else. Is that it?

If so, my only question is who would choose these enlightened souls and / or who would they be?

By definition "Theft of Music" is stealing. Copyright infringement isn't theft.
Don't like that? Argue with the U. S. Congress. They carefully put copyright law in Title 17 of the U.S. Legal code. The just as carefully put all theft related law in a different whole title. That title is the one reserved for ALL normally criminal violations, as it says right at the start of the code, so the U. S. congress thinks copyright infringement isn't theft AND isn't necessarily criminal at all.
Argue with the Supreme Court. They ruled that individual states can't enforce copyright, so if violations were theft, they would be taking away the right of the individual states to stop a type of theft happening in their own physical jurisdiction. The Supreme Court has already clarified that that is not what they did.
Argue with the Constitution. It uses the phrase "for a limited time". If violation equaled theft, then the law would be saying there is a type of theft where objects become too old to be protected under law, just from age and not from any loss of value.
Argue with the Berne treaty. If violation is theft, then what's all that bit in the treaty about non-criminal violation? Non-criminal theft? That's an oxymoron for sure.

If you really believe copyright violation is theft, then you need to get up impeachment proceedings against at least four of the current supreme court justices and over 40 still active congressmen who voted on these laws in the 80's and 90's. Depending on just which decisions you would rate as coddling thieves, that could be all the SCOTUS and over 250 active congress-members. You also need to impeach the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and possibly several members of the cabinet for negotiating and signing various treaties and such. There are at least 10 currently serving ambassadors and their immediate staff that you need to get removed from office too, and various other functionaries. You probably should prosecute a large number of people now out of office, or at least support civil suits for denial of due process against many of them. You also need to get a constitutional amendment passed. If you aren't working for any of this, you don't really believe copyright violation is theft, or you lack the stones to speak truth to power. It's easy to harangue a bunch of rank and file people on slashdot - but if you really mean it, tell the big dogs off.