There's a long thread going on over at SM forums ( https://forum.smithmicro.com/topic/307/sticking-it-to-the-poser-thieves-freeloaders/38 ) which covers much of what you said about pirated content.

There are a lot of greedy, sleazy, self serving, immature, selfish, uneducated, entitled punks and kids out there who both profit from stolen content, and use it without paying for it because they think that others should work for free.