Font pirates steal from many, many, small companies, independent designers, people with ideas. There is no Robin Hood romance involved, there is no justice being done by offering fonts dirt cheap on rip-off CDs. If anything, font pirates would compare to ordinary highway robbers. Perhaps competition made them diversify. It denies graphic designers, typographers, everybody who uses type in some form or other, the new typefaces they look forward to.
Pirates have no interest in type, they have an interest in the use that people have for type.
Counter them when possible, be aware of their schemes.