I would be interested to hear how piracy can justified, not for multi-million dollar corporations and defunct organisations, but for small businesses and indivi

I would be interested to hear how piracy can justified, not for multi-million dollar corporations and defunct organisations, but for small businesses and individuals. Adobe and Microsoft can sustain their products being pirated wholesale partly because it undermines their smaller competitors. It's easy to justify downloading episodes of syndicated television shows, platinum albums, or computer games from 1992, but as a startup-centric site, it seems more relevant to question the impact of piracy on small independent businesses/artists/producers. Maybe they should be "grateful for the publicity", or "flattered" that their product has been downloaded thousands of times on thepiratebay.org. Maybe the losses incurred are made up for by a wider audience and more sales once the user has reached maturity...