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Originally Posted by mrkai
...because of your vested interest.
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No, because I was brought up in the 1960s to believe in "right and wrong", and using something without paying for it falls into the category of "wrong". I'd feel the same way whether or not I had vested interests. When I was a kid, all my friends and I used to spend a significant portion of our pocket money on "45" records. Today's teenagers just seem to think that they can download whatever they want, for free. I can only think that the parents are to blame; many young people today simply don't seem to understand the idea that it's just plain WRONG to take someone else work without paying for it.
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What do you want Harry, that is attainable in the Really-for-real world? 
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Simply for people to have respect for other peoples' rights, and to obey the law. I honestly don't think that's asking too much.
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An unlicensed copy of a digital thing has not taken a dime out of your pocket. It hasn't. You never had the money.
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If a person who would otherwise have bought it has instead downloaded it, that is lost income for the author.