> 1. you want your freedom respected, but you don't want to respect the other person freedom.
Copyright is a monopoly, not property. Being an unauthorized distributor of a copyrighted work doesn't affect the copyright holder's freedom in any way. If anything, it might affect their business, the same way Meijer selling crackers identical to Triscuit affects Nabisco's business.
> 2. GNU exists because RMS didn't pirate UNIX, he created something new with a new license, GNU. That is, in my opinion, the principle what should empower a community such as this. Reject (AKA, don't use) the things that are wrong, and create new things that are right to give an alternative (or entirely replace) the wrong things.
I don't agree with this way of thinking, at least the way you're saying it. It's just as good to take something bad and make it good as it is to throw away something bad and make something good from scratch. Just look at the BSD projects; all of those originated from proprietary UNIX code.
Using proprietary software is of course never good for you, whether obtained legally or not. That doesn't mean that copyright infringement is contrary to free software. Using or distributing to Adobe Photoshop illegally is contrary to free software because the program is proprietary, not because its distribution is infringing copyright.
