I'm increasingly nauseated by the people who can't seem to understand that in certain circumstances piracy is a victimless crime and then trying to force their morality on others.
If an individual would under no circumstances purchase the product in question, and the rights holder loses no resources in their making a digital copy, where exactly is the damage to anyone occurring here?
There is no mythical lost sale, there is no loss of bits and bytes. Some hurt feelings, but their attempts to manhandle various world governments hurts my feelings, so I'd say we're even.
Now, if the individual is truly stealing simply because they don't want to spend the money on that, that is one thing, but you really have no idea who is being cheap and who simply would never spend money on the product in question.
Their business model may or may not be broken but the fact remains that how they are doing it isn't making them happy. The entertainment industry still seems to have lots of money to throw around, so it seems to be doing fine. If they were truly losing so much money you'd think they'd be broke and destitute from all the years of bitching they've done.
The only thing I think that might be broken is their greed meter and their inability to logically think about what is happening when someone downloads something. I can guarantee you there has never been a single business or person harmed by piracy and I'd dare anyone who claims they have been to prove it. I'm not saying some company claiming 90% of the copies of their game is pirated so they closed their offices or killed the office dog because they couldn't afford to feed him. I'm claiming definitive proof that
1)the people who pirated the product would have actually paid cash for it
2)no sales were generated by people who used piracy as a demo and then turned around and bought it later because of that
3)the money they would have generated from #1 would have kept them afloat
They won't be able to prove a single one of those. They could make suppositions and guesses and theorize into the night, but they'd never be able to actually prove that piracy did any genuine damage to their business.