I'm sorry, but a lot of people are being really dense in their response to this post. They create a false dichotomy of piracy versus no piracy, as if the author

I'm sorry, but a lot of people are being really dense in their response to this post. They create a false dichotomy of piracy versus no piracy, as if the author's wife wouldn't make more money and stand a better chance of doing what she loves and might be great at, if the piracy were just decreased. We can still make a difference, and a lot of people are fallaciously trying to rationalize a(n active) passivity in a discussion where the questions and answers aren't black and white. Before Kickstarter, it was actually possible to support a person's work by buying their product. Still is.