I have had people pirate things I created, and even though it was hypocritical of me, I got frustrated because it cost me so much time and money to make. It felt like people just pirate everything without consideration for whether it is actually expensive to buy, or hard to obtain, or if it was made by a giant, faceless corporation, or me and my friend Charlie after work and on weekends. There is a pipeline that just puts everything out there, no introspection, no questions asked.

It's not conceivable to me that we'd ever run into a situation where a pirate group would say "it'd be wrong of us to rip this and distribute it." It just wouldn't ever happen.

I said it was hypocritical, because I pirate a lot of stuff myself. I think it's great, it lets me be exposed to so much more than I would otherwise. So, I'm not complaining. But, I'm also not rushing out to spend another year making something small and personal just to have it show up on torrent sites a couple days later. Not sure what to do about that. Ultimately, I guess it comes down to people's choices, but people don't think too hard about the ethics of this stuff—I know I don't, 99% of the time.