> but I really wonder just who is going to these lengths to pirate things for other people? The people breaking the systems and the people doing most of the pi

> but I really wonder just who is going to these lengths to pirate things for other people? The people breaking the systems and the people doing most of the pirating are different. DRM breaking is a fun challange to some people. You can find these kinds of people breaking all sorts of things. Browser sandbox escapes, remote code execution etc. The mindset is well described in the article here as I can only solve a problem if somebody else implies that I can't. It's a fun challenge! Plus if you do it before others, you get to feel really superior. The actual pirating is however done by different people. Usually initially by close acquaintances of the DRM breaker, but the methods tend to spread/leak.