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No, I don't, because I can afford stuff and pirating in this situation would be just pure stealing which I believe is morally wrong. Yes, being a billionaire is usually morally wrong too but I don't think it just cancels out.
Justifying piracy by saying capitalism is bad sounds like a hypocrisy to me. You want to use something that exists thanks to capitalism without participating in it. You want to eat your cake and have it too.
Now, the case is different for people that can't afford stuff, especially when they genuinely need it (but I don't draw the line at entertainment, after all people NEED entertainment too). In that case, please pirate away. Everyone deserves a decent life. In general, I largely agree with OP's friend.
I also can afford stuff but sometimes stuff doesn't allow itself to be bought. Tried buying some music in mp3 format from Amazon, they wouldn't sell me digital music because I didn't live in one of the handful of countries they sell to. So I just ordered the audio CD and ripped it. Now I have the physical disk as well which, I'm not going to lie, I like, but convenience went out the window. This was a new release.
On a different occasion (older release), I couldn't find the audio CD version but found a site that sold to me (not Amazon, but what do you know, it is possible to sell digital goods all over the world. Whoddathunkit?).
And then I have some music I still cannot find neither digital nor disk except for some very rare vinyls which pop up once in a while. And I don't have a set-up to rip vinyls, so what does one do about that? Piracy is also a service problem.
Yeah, I didn't mention this but if it's just impossible to buy something then I don't see anything wrong about piracy. No one looses anything.