At one point there was no law against drinking and driving. In fact, in some countries you can drink and drive a reasonable amount while in others you can't drive for 24 hours after even 1 drink. Laws change all the time:
https://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/
Sometimes piracy is good. For example, hearing an artist on YouTube or downloading a couple songs and then you actually go to a concert and pay $60-200 to see them and then later pay $ for FLAC files of their songs. Free exposure can be good for musicians long-term. It's like a game demo or taking a car for a test drive before you buy it. Imagine if you were asked to pay $ to demo a game or test drive a car? Most game companies stopped free game demos because they know most of their games are boring, rehashed sequels and glitchy. It's better for them to market the game with pre-order bonuses to hide how avg or even poor the game is.
I know lots of people who download free electronica music but then go to a lot of concerts of the same artists. The artists make far more off the concerts than off music CD sales. I am not trying to promote piracy but people who say in all cases piracy is 100% worse don't know the facts. There are plenty of gamers who try out a pirated game and then buy the full version or buy the full version and get the no CD pirated crack without DRM.