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Piracy is the forceful (often deadly) interruption of commerce through personal gain. I'm not talking about naval piracy. Naval piracy is the original definition. Media companies just use that term to make people who share digital media look bad. Never mind their moral faults.
Enjoying digital media without paying for it isn't piracy. You can do that via the radio or TV and no one says anything. You're not supposed to show friends your media, that's considered a public performance, but nobody cares. I remember a circus 10-15 years ago telling us not to record because they were using Star Wars music. People still recorded. Nobody cared. (This was also in the pre-smartphone times. So maybe 20 years ago?)
At the circus, I would assume that they had a contract allowing them to use the music, but it also required them to make their best efforts not to allow recording.
Their best effort, of course, was to ask people not to record, and then they didn't need to bother doing anything else.