Can piracy be a good thing?

[Bitmap Frogs]

You know, I wonder what would happen if anyone broke into your office at night, stole the goods that you worked hard to produce and impacted your capacity to generate revenue to build up your pension fund, your kids college fund, etc.

Would your reaction be:

a) things should be free!
b) call the cops and hope the bastards get jailed.

And as for Metallica,