As a hacker, I love to tinker with stuff. While I love to tinker with tech, I love to tinker with information as well. To put it simply, I'm a hacker and a pirate. Game mods, memes, fan games - are all things I consider strictly beneficial for society, and sadly, they all infringe copyright or at least are discouraged by it. Piracy's effect on society is debatable - it forces the work into an illegal public domain, which can be a good or a bad thing - I'm not as saddened by the fact it infringes copyright, even though I still disagree with the law. For example, I dislike Windows piracy because it still plays for Microsoft's network effect, and some potential Linux users use Windows instead. I absolutely don't consider having pirated IDA wrong - I don't have that kind of disposable income so it had zero effect on Ilfak's pockets, while it gave me a lot of hacking knowledge, saving me time over other (heavily inferior at the time, before Ghidra was a thing) tools I would've potentially used. Perhaps it can be s