According to an infamous anti-piracy PSA that just recently celebrated its 20th birthday, "downloading a copy of a movie is the same as stealing a physical disc from a regular store, stealing a handbag, or even stealing a car."
Except it isn't. When you steal something another party is deprived of the thing you've stolen from them. That doesn't happen when you make a copy of a friends content.
Copyright is an artificial creation that was crafted by people with the aim of depriving everyone of their natural born right to communicate for the private gain of a select minority. While it was sold to us as a means to promote the arts and sciences they've forgotten that the sales pitch was "for the public good" and a limited time. How long? 7 years. Today for all practical purposes copyright doesn't expire. Something produced today will not enter into the public domain until after you are long since dead. Copyrights today can survive 120+ years in the right circumstances.
It's time to put an end to copyright and patents. Preserve actual property rights, not works of fiction that defraud the public of their inalienable right to speak.
If you support what a project or creator does, tip them, donate, make a contribution if you can. Subscribe to a related service, buy a t-shirt, but whatever you do don't fund the bullies. Don't purchase a license, or subscribe to a SaaS.
"Software as a Service" (SaaS) refers to a cloud-based model where software applications are hosted by a provider and accessed by users over the internet on a subscription basis.
I don't usually 'pimp my company', but I'll do so here as we aim to tackle this kind of crap through a series of GNU/Linux offerings: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/
Win for the free man: