Well. Piracy does have benefits believe it or not. I personally wouldn't care if my little program got tons of free publicity through words of mouth and promotion via so many warez sites. If 5000 people downloaded my app from the warez sites, I'll bet you at least 50 of them will pay for it. Yes. A measly 1%. But those 50 people would never even have known about my little app if it wasn't for being available everywhere. That's not something I could have done. I would never expect to have ALL 5000 people. That just doesn't happen in the real world.

IMO, celebrities and singers gets higher pay due to piracy also. If piracy did not exist, I doubt they will be paid so high. It's all about fame and recognition. Without piracy, they probably won't be as well known all over the world. But they never take this into the picture when they are suing some pirate. All they care about is more money they could have earnt if all those "downloaders" paid for it instead. (which would never have happened even without piracy)

We all know the bad side of piracy. But it's not all bad. Really.