If sound design/emulation companies' main concerns were of independant home based musicians playing around in their basements with pirated software, they probably would have done something about it a long time ago. However, they understand that anybody in the industry who is making even a dollar off of their software probably has the moral standards to pay for the software they are using in their buisness. This goes for any industry, wether it be photographers using photoshop, videographers using premiere, etc. etc. If it was really a big enough problem in the industry to the point where large sums of money were not moving around, I gaurentee you something would have been done, thats just economics. Look at the music industry and Napster/limewire etc. etc. So really it comes down to a question of morals, and this really isn't the best place to argue them, as everyone has their own.