Pirating Disney's works doesn't help anything much. It doesn't overcome the problem of not being able to use Disney works as the basis of new, derived works to

Pirating Disney's works doesn't help anything much. It doesn't overcome the problem of not being able to use Disney works as the basis of new, derived works to expand and enrich our culture, which is the real loss where Disney films still being under copyright dozens of years later comes into play. I mean, if Sleeping Beauty was never made, the difference from a world where we aren't allowed to do anything interesting with it as inspiration for further works is not huge -- but the difference between living in that world where it exists but we can't really touch it and a world where we can create derived works to produce enduring culturally enriching works is tremendous. Still . . . if people are going to acquire it anyway, it's better if they're not giving money to Disney eighty years after it was created thanks to copyright extension robbing us of our culture.