[chii]

> But people benefit from piracy

the benefit is private. Nobody would publicly claim they support piracy, because it's too politically incorrect.

So the PR machine doesn't have a hard job at all convincing law makers of a non-truth, despite privately that people would generally not agree with said non-truth.

[Jensson]

> Nobody would publicly claim they support piracy, because it's too politically incorrect.

Many in Europe do, there are even political parties for that.