They don't care about violating patents but they care about open source more than the general population. Taking a look at the stats from a large private tracke

They don't care about violating patents but they care about open source more than the general population. Taking a look at the stats from a large private tracker, a huge chunk of the users are running firefox on linux and the forums are full of open source talk. FLAC tends to be the only allowed lossless codec over all the proprietary ones.