the industry isn't concerned with chronic downloaders, it's only concerned with those who allow access to pirated software and media by uploading them, those who lead and participate in groups in the scene, and especially those who create the techniques that allow them to be
for the rest, this stuff isn't something that we're owed, it's something that we're lucky to have and shouldn't take for granted considered how hardly the FBI, the RCMP, Interpol, etc... are monitoring scene actors and attempting to debunk and frame them
and it's just true that the media has some sort of double standard in that domain