That may be the case, but much of the "piracy is justified" crowd seems to rely on an "ends-justify-the-means" approach to suggest that piracy is great. If ever

That may be the case, but much of the "piracy is justified" crowd seems to rely on an "ends-justify-the-means" approach to suggest that piracy is great. If everyone pirated software (or if even a significant portion of people did), it'd be much harder to make money off of building software. I say this as someone who has pirated plenty of software in my life. I just didn't delude myself into thinking that I wasn't doing something wrong.