In that case I'll go away again.

A coherent, legitimate discussion I'll participate in. (difference in pay models, what developers should or shouldn't or could or couldn't do, etc).

Fruitless bantering I won't.

You aren't going to stop hackers from cracking DRM, or pirating software, by ranting on a backwater nobody forum. Even if this were somehow an official Pirate, or Anti-pirate forum where it was on topic and noticed by people that actually maybe could potentially almost make a difference... it won't.

And to just up and quit software development because you finally realized that you won't stop piracy is equally silly... you know there are pirates - you know your software will be pirated.. just like as an SA I know my systems can be hacked.. and if I'm popular enough are likely to get hacked eventually.

The effort then is damage mitigation.. whether you can make enough money off the people that do pay vs those that don't for you sleep happily at night.