Piracy is just a fancy word for price sensitivity.

Photoshop would not have the market dominance that it enjoys if college kids where not pirating it for a decade.

My son knows how to model in blender because a 12 yr old cannot afford maya. In a generation blender will own the space. He will never use maya.

Napster created a generation of music fans that put way more money into the industry than previous generations ever did.

A certain amount of loss should be tolerable, because it is often the pathway to future growth. A pirated copy isn’t a lost sale, it’s your investment in the next generation of consumers