I am not against piracy of overpriced products, specially if most of the profit of selling that product does not go to the author. That happens a lot with books and records (specially music cds, they are overpriced in spain)
I am not against piracy of products you aren't going to use. For example, many peecee users have Maya copies but it doesn't matter because they never use it, and they don't get any profit of it. That doesn't harm developers because that kind of users aren't going to buy that package anyway. That probably may benefit them in the long run because some people may find it interesting and decide to study 3D design and if they go on sometime in the future they may buy it to use it comercially and earn money
I am against piracy if someone makes money of it, for example I don't like the fact of selling pirated copies of anything (Music, VideoGames, etc...) people who buy this are potential buyers ready to spend some money, but the problem is that someone that is not the real author is winning money and the real author is not seeing a single cent of it.
For example, I don't mind paying for cheap cds done by local (or small) music bands, they are cheap and almost all money goes to the real authors, probably a higher percentage than the money that goes to big music bands.
I prefer going to concerts of big bands than buyibg its expensive records.
Now think also that many people seem to collect divx and mp3, sometimes they don't even watch or listen to them, they are collect-maniacs.
For example I don't agree with pirating shareware, because most of the times you can try it if you want, it's quite cheap and the author it's usually someone like you, a student without job.
I pay for what I use. When Amithlon was released I bought it even watching the pirate versions in everywhere and having access to these versions because I knew that I was going to use it. The same with AmigaOS 3.9 etc... I don't care if you have 100000 pirate cds as long as you pay for what you really use or really want. Some friends of mine have bought movie DVDs after having the movie in divX because they really liked the movie. I've done that also with some music cds (even due to the high price -sigh-) I don't have DVD and almost never go out to see movies.
I'm not holyer than anyone, that's just what I think about it. The big movie and music studios earn much more money than the real authors and times are changing. If the sold DVDs 4 times cheaper they would sell 8 times more. Piracy on the Amiga is specially dangerous due to the small market, if you pirate something for pc it's not as harmful to the creators of the product as if you do this with an Amiga product. People left who is now using Amigas know how dangerous it is.
And what createcoms has said has sense for me. If I want two products and one is for peecee and the other for Amiga I will probably spend money in the Amiga product.
