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No they aren't, the "pirates" are freeloaders who help these companies abuse more people by endorsing the software via its use.
The actual volunteers and activists continually developing software that respects your freedom are doing the actual heroic shit here. Not some rando in Brazil who found a cracked copy of a program and hosts a tracker.
In fact, "piracy" helps these companies more than they hinder.
Yes FOSS is good and should be supported, but claming someone who is pirating a copy of Adobe is perpetuating abuse is batshit. Supporting an open source project requires specific knowledge and/or money, pirating Adobe and using a wholly separate skillset to pay your bills is morally neutral at worst. Personally I would argue, it's good actually.
"I can't support this FOSS project because I'm broke and don't know how the fuck to code, and I also I can't use this stolen copy of Adobe because someone might find out, guess I'll starve" doesn't make any sense.