^ THIS
I come from a large family. I'm the only person in my family who knows how to encode video formats into video DVDs. I get weddings, graduations, reunions, sports events etc and I convert it to DVD for them. I need tons of space to keep that stuff around in case someone loses their copy.
Hell, my youngest daughter's kindergarten teacher is married to a professional photographer. He does the usual stuff (weddings, etc) but he also goes to every local sporting event he can, takes as many pictures as he can and tries to sell them to the local newspaper. Now I know someone is going to say "So? He can delete the sporting event pictures if the paper isn't interested." But he can't... sometimes the local paper doesn't want to buy them until much later. As an example, a local teenager, who was well known around town for being good at sports, passed away in a car accident about a year ago. The newspaper wanted to do a big collage of various pictures of him and went to this photographer because they knew he never threw pictures away.
The guy has TB upon TB of RAIDed storage and just keeps adding to it.
Not everyone who needs large quantities of storage is a pirate. You and I both know that but it's sad how many others just don't get it.