> I think there is business "harm" to piracy, but it's (mostly) vastly overstated. If I illegally download a song/movie I wouldn't have otherwise bought, did an

> I think there is business "harm" to piracy, but it's (mostly) vastly overstated. If I illegally download a song/movie I wouldn't have otherwise bought, did anybody lose out? More than two decades of studies show there is no harm to these companies and that pirates spend the most on content. Piracy is flat out a net good for humanity and society. No convincing counter-arguments can be made. The only example where harm could be said to happen is with very small content-creators who would be relying on income to get started, but even then I don't think that matters. If you're the source of a creation and people want to see more, they will fund it. It need not be funded by everybody that will or has viewed or enjoyed it.