It's interesting to watch all of the moralizing and rationalization in here. I would expect this crowd of (mostly) very smart adults to just accept that piracy benefits them, hurts the content producer, doesn't hurt anyone they know, and has a very low probability of negative consequences.

The tendency to compress an uncontroversial description of costs and benefits as they affect multiple parties into a unique point on a moral continuum to be observed by all parties is age appropriate for a teenager.