(paraphrased) “The user of the illegal service may fund the activities of criminal organisations, says Executive Director Jaana Pihkala from the copyright organisation TTVK.”

as opposed to paying the even more criminal publishers scalping the rights and screwing the creators

If they have an issue with copyright infringement, they should discuss with OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and more.

If they are so opposed to stealing, then why steal my personal information? That is not how (a functioning) society works