yeah I challenge any assertion of it being a victim less crime to pirate content especially. I know of a few talented people who made great stuff only to release it for a reasonable price, find it immediately pirated and get discouraged and withdraw from releasing things into the market. In this case we are all victims as the pool of content available has been diminished for us all.

On the flip side piracy can to a certain extent grow the market.
Back around the time that poser 7 was coming out (honestly have no idea when that was.. years ago) I was talking to an online friend from a gaming community and complimenting him profusely about his character art... where did it come from..what?! you made that? how?.. etc etc. Long story short he sent me a big file containing poser 6 and a large, really poorly sorted, runtime of content. I'd never really been interested in downloading movies or music, and my software needs were limited to games which i bought and the included software on my system so the concept of pirating was not really on my radar. But that's how I got started in this none-the-less. Due to that act of sharing SM has gotten a full purchase of poser 8 and an upgrade to pro for each subsequent release. Additionally I've picked up a large number of content items through the years. Now in todays world if that situation was to repeat without illegal sharing, I'd have gotten a dowload link to Free DAZ studio and the free Gen2 or 3 bases. With that content I may or may not have been intrigued enough to carry on, but its very likely poser and poser centered content would not get much if any of my money. As much as I see the morality of Piracy to be pretty black and white, I'm not sure the totality of the situation is as simple as we would like