Not sure why you feel the need to defend your actions by drawing analogies with real piracy - it’s their attitude towards you as a content consumer that you should note in this situation, and that’s just appaling. Your actions may well be piracy but frankly that’s just a word they use to guilt you out of choosing convenience and safety. Be a pirate and be proud, goddammit!
I don’t understand the vitriol either. Must be a lemmy thing ( see every thread about microsoft doing something shitty and people going “you deserve it if you use windows/don’t use linux” ). Even the reddit threads related to this issue aren’t this bad, they’re mostly friendly and helpful towards the guys that got grifted.