I&#x27;m not saying piracy has had no part in a positive change in society. I know that, without Napster, stuff like iTunes and Spotify couldn&#x27;t exist. I know that Spotify itself started out with a repository of pirated music. I know that many cable companies and radio stations just started off by illegally rebroadcasting other networks&#x27; content.<p>The recurring pattern is that these people committing acts of piracy had a larger goal&#x2F;conclusion in mind. They often ended up legally servicing and selling  media and entertainment on a far larger scale than they ever illegally stole it. These people didn&#x27;t have the resources and content to go about their business otherwise, and saw fit to commit acts of theft in the short-term to convince people that the core of their structure was worth getting access to content legally. The vast majority of pirates don&#x27;t have such ambitions. They just want free movies.