Late responding, though the conclusion I always seem to reach regarding piracy is that it should be frowned upon as a society with the caveat that it not be ill

Late responding, though the conclusion I always seem to reach regarding piracy is that it should be frowned upon as a society with the caveat that it not be illegal, and that it being some version of legal or tolerated sufficiently to act as a counterbalance to a potential system out of balance: 1) if platform providers suck (which maybe includes a lack of interoperability, e.g. walled gardens for only Disney content), and/or 2) content providers are trying to extract too much value from society - which balances with how wealthy society is on average - then if you can only afford shelter/food and other necessities for a minimal acceptable quality of life (including whatever telecommunications and entertainment or education access is arguably necessary for enjoyment of life including being able to have interests to talk about with people, which may be movies or series you pirate because government policy has structured society to suffocate the individual or not help them adequately - arguably driven by industrial complexes capturing our political systems and influencing to dictating policy that helps them at cost of the individual), etc... If 100% of people pirate and no money is going to funding creativity then something is likely incredibly wrong with our systems' designs and society, but at least if piracy is not illegal then authoritarian control and punishment can't be a violent-force tool to extract value that sovereign individuals decide isn't worth it to them compared to their other costs; this then would arguably cause all parties, all industries, to align to make sure the foundation - the floor - of society is solid and generating/producing [in sustainable way] to extract some value to then reinvest to generate more ROI for society; there are some more recent theories regarding a Universal Basic Income that the ROI from the UBI will actually [at least eventually] pay for the cost of the UBI itself. TL;DR - Piracy is a useful and valuable mechanism to keep a competitive greed driven for-profit industry in check.