Getting free copies of copyrighted stuff over the Internet is often not illegal. For example, my Debian update does exactly that every single day (and sometime

Getting free copies of copyrighted stuff over the Internet is often not illegal. For example, my Debian update does exactly that every single day (and sometimes I download FOSS manually). If you are going round advising people to the contrary, then you will, in at least some cases, wind up encouraging them to give unnecessary money to charlatans with inferior products (for example the people who burn free software to a CD-ROM and sell it on ebay). For that reason, I find your behaviour to be unethical, and that's before we start considering the possibility that you are intentionally shilling for such people.