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Adam,
I have nothing against people doing things "for the good of humanity". As you say, you contribute a lot of your time porting apps to the iLiad, and I spend on average a couple of hours a day creating eBooks which I upload here.
But the fundamental point is that it is our free choice to do that. The "pirate" takes that choice away from the person in whom the law invests it, and I consider that to be morally as well as legally wrong. If AstraZeneca choose to donate $500m of their AIDS drugs to the third world, that's their choice. If someone "clones" $500m of drugs to which AstraZenaca holds the patent, and donates those to the third world, the choice has been removed from the people who should be able to make it, regardless of the end result. I'm afraid that I consider it rarely the case that "the end justifies the means".
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