If you consider piracy as a form of marketing then you see that "100 pirate copies == a sale that would not have happened otherwise" So it is not clear (at lea

If you consider piracy as a form of marketing then you see that "100 pirate copies == a sale that would not have happened otherwise" So it is not clear (at least it is not ridiculously clear) whether money are lost because of piracy. There is no moral obligation to support business practices based on obsolete technology. Copyright infringement is not stealing.