The long and short of it:
Companies that are SCREAMING about piracy are actually the ones that were near exclusive distributors of the software.
CBS, disney, cnet, all sorts of hands in the cookie jar on this one.
Major companies at first distributed the software, now they are suing the users of it and lobbying for more control.
This guy claims they made tons of money off the downloads (from Ads I would assume) and they did it all because they knew they could gain a lot of control over the internet in the end.