When I was younger, piracy was justified with similar tech folks arguments: "Information wants to be free", "Serves them right for controlling their content in a way that inconveniences me", "If I own a copy, the content is mine to share".
And I used to be right there with them until I realized it was entirely an entirely self-serving way to justify not paying for shit. (I'm not saying it is for everybody, or that everybody's situation mimics mine-- but I was honest enough to admit that's what it was it was for me.) I don't like Adobe's subscription plan, but I was f-ing poor for my younger decades and there's no way in hell I could afford paying a month's rent for photoshop, but $10/mo? I signed up immediately. Also, rather than just using BT whenever I felt like getting an album, I started making deliberate decisions about what albums I wanted and bought them on iTunes when I learned about it in the mid-aughts. Sure the lock-in and DRM suck, but I was happy to pay for the convenience. For indie bands, I still will buy their stuff on Bandcamp even if I can stream it just because they add value to my life and not being legally compelled to pay them isn't the same as not being morally obligated to compensate people whose labor you voluntarily benefit from. I haven't pirated software in decades. If it's not FOSS and I want it, I'll buy it. It's absolutely bananas how many developers make a fat living off of making commercial software but pretend to be radical class warriors when its time to bust out the credit card for anything that isn't physical.