[monooso]

How many people pirating software stole every piece of copyrighted material in existence and then used that material to generate billions of dollars which they kept for themselves?

[xienze]

You keep using that word "stole", you can't steal digital information, remember?

> then used that material to generate billions of dollars which they kept for themselves?

Hasn't it also lead to distilled, free and open models that everyone can benefit from?