It takes a fair bit of courage for a creator of something to stand up and say this in a day an age when all authors/artists/etc are expected to rant about how copyright is evil.
Anyway, this. Without piracy, I would never have discovered Hellsing, Trinity Blood, Serial Experiments Lain, Detah Note, the author Harry Harrison, and many other serieses or authors I love.

Woah! I found my leading edge! Like.. The fuck!? I… I just don’t even know. I don’t think I even bought this. Yeeaaah.
You have permitted J.K Rowling to to take the blame for you, rather than face me for my lost letter yourself. I shall wait for the letter for one hour, in my e-mail inbox. If, at the end of the hour, you have not sent it to me, have not given it, then battle recommences….