>but they're certainly not paying the poor. How so? A lot of the stuff on TPB would be too expensive for the lowest class of working Americans and much more so

>but they're certainly not paying the poor. How so? A lot of the stuff on TPB would be too expensive for the lowest class of working Americans and much more so for most of the rest of the world. It's true that the TPB are profiting out of it (though they are offering a service and covering a market in their own right) but you make it seem like the users are getting nothing out of it. That's blatantly false. A significant part of the 3rd world's technological infrastructure is built on pirated software.