In Canada it's perfectly legal to download copyrighted material from P2P software since the court ruling of 2003 so there is no stealing or crime involved, hurt sensibilities aside.
Every American who has ever converted a song on a music CD to an Mp3 and put it on an MP3 player is a criminal since US copyright law prohibits format switching. If you buy a CD and change the format of a song to MP3 for your personal use you are committing  a copyright violation. Every time you record your favorite show you are committing a copyright violation unless you have the express permission of the network to do so.
The contestant Susan Boyle from Britain's got talent only became a sensation due to the illegal posting of an episode of the show on youtube. They're not complaining mind you because it brought great interest to the show.
One man's piracy is another man's publicity I guess.
Did you know that the membership of the Pirate Bay went up by 3000 members after the verdict?
I don't advocate piracy and you can tell by my post count that I'm not a very active poster I joined the old site in 1999) but I cannot sit idly by while facts are being distorted to serve someone's agenda.

Sleep soundly.
Your harddrives are safe.