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Depends if I find the company that made that media ethical. I would be happy to pirate Autodesk, Adobe, EA etc. Just because they are predatory and unethical. I also "pirate" music (adblock on youtube) since recording labels are shit. Also I watch youtube with no ads, since I do not support Google. I do pay for Nebula though, since a lot of creators I like are there and the company is fair.
Adobe is the one for me. They implemented subscription models, mandatory cloud integration, and spyware just to bleed as much money as they can from their captive consumer base. But the one thing they simply won't do is make their products competitively priced. They set up their industry stranglehold and now they're going to milk it for all it's worth.
There are people who bought Photoshop back before the subscription model who cannot access it today, now that the DRM servers validating their authenticity were taken down with the move to Creative Cloud.
But pirates still have access.