Can't one be a "good" pirate?
I think I'm a good pirate, I downloaded ME2 a week before it came out, because it I knew I was going to be busy with a school project when it came out, but I had also pre-ordered the CE a few months beforehand, and got it when it came out. So it changed nothing for them.
And with music, one of my friends gave me some Linkin Park mp3s before In The End became a hit, today I have all their albums, dvds, a-dvds, I even bought Transformers 2 on bluray, just because they did part of the score.
And maybe 50 of my ~200 dvd collection I've bought because I downloaded the film and liked it. And I've not bought them cheaply, the average price I've purchased them at is 82 % of a standard new dvd's price (yeah I like statistics), so it is actually very few I've bought at a discount.
But it does represent one problem, for example I'm a big Chuck fan, and I download the show via torrent which doesn't help now, but I am going to buy the hole series on bluray when it is stops. But then again, they can't register what I watch and don't watch. So I couldn't influence that anyway.
And all that is not even mentioning the games, movies, tv-shows I've got other people to buy/watch.
I know what I do is illegal, but I don't feel bad about.
