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Lots of piracy is also not breaking the law. Copyright violations are illegal, but that involves making copies, which you don't do when you stream a movie from a pirate site. It's the site provider that is breaking the law, not the viewer at the other end.
In the end it doesn't matter if you call it freeloading, piracy or whatever. You can twist the definitions of those words any way you want. What matters is that the content provider isn't getting paid.
That's not what's being discussed. It's whether laws are being broken. That's why the discussion is about piracy not payment.
Did you miss the part where "Lots of piracy is also not breaking the law."?