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I mean, it is a thing. I'm not saying that you'll agree that it's a right thing or that it's justifiable. I understand arguments against it. But it's more along the lines of Peter Sunde's stuff. Piracy which fights for freedom of information, against things like corporate secrets and abuses, things like that. One of the examples of ethical piracy has been using piracy to share news and media with blackout countries, nations that are banned from getting any media that isn't state approved. I would call that kind of piracy ethical piracy.
Protest piracy is where you pirate something in protest of the people who would otherwise be making a profit off of it. There's a reason why that's not under the same umbrella. People can call pirating Adobe products what they want, but it's not at the same level of trying to effect social change as ethical piracy reaches for.