This sums up my views on piracy:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...-Becomes-Theft
As an extension, I feel that pirating things that we would never have access to otherwise is acceptable - such as Adobe software. A company that feels it can sell its software for £150 for a single license to students is a company that does not deserve my money. Its not that I can use alternatives - because there simply aren't alternatives that offer the same as some Adobe software, like Flash and Premiere.