Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

You're not going to stop them from getting worse, and nothing the rest of us do can either, short of overthrowing the companies, and ending capitalism. Something that ultimately isn't likely to happen any time soon. What you're forgetting here is that when I say companies use abuse as an excuse I really mean the excuse part. They'll say it's happening even if it's not significant, and they'll say it's happening even if it isn't happening at all. If they get tired of the courtesy and want to go back to making more money they'll lie and say they're ending it because of abuse and people who do blame pirates will eat that excuse up even if it's a lie and begin attacking pirates for it, like they always do. Do you see it yet?

I really wish us as a community would stop blaming other pirates for the bad or evil decisions of companies, that applies to exploitative decisions like limitation of abilites via fake DRM (by the way, you can bypass SteamWorks DRM very VERY Easily) or when it comes to copyright trolling and takedown requests.

The truth is they would rather us blame and ultimately shoot at each other because, well I think others have said it best: "United we're strong, divided we're weak" and blaming other people for takedown requests or bad decisions from companies is exactly the kind of division they want, that benefits them. Because when we're divided or don't see them as the enemy, it's easier to pick us off and there will be no retaliation against them.

Get out of that mindset of going against other pirates, it is the corporations who screw things up, they do it of their own accord. Blaming pirates is an excuse because they're bored and want to make more money, otherwise why would they be adding ads to paid plans? Why would they be trying to sell games multiple times in a row. They don't actually care if people are nice to them, they probably see capitulating as weakness. We're suckers for playing along with the game in the first place, that's how they see it.