You don’t Disney either? 
One can make money ethically, too.
But as @dalto said, we live in the modern world.
The modern world runs on the moral nihilism economic model.
There is no ethical / unethical / moral / immoral … there is only money.
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The only ones that can change that our ourselves!
Psychopaths rule the world, we only live in it.
Freedom of choice only exists within controlled predefined parameters, you are not nearly as free as you think you are, you just find ways of rationalizing it.
Copyright laws is but one of many mechanisms of control.
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Nonsense!
Denial is the most prominent form of rationalization.
The God delusion is the other, but we won’t get into that here.
I’m absolutely free to HONK!!111111
Whatever you want to believe you go right ahead.
They allow you to honk!
No amount of reptiloid overlords can hold my HONKS
See?! 
There are too many emotions and opinions in this discussion.
For patents for example I have not seen here any fact based arguments. Same for copyright. All I read here is opinions and emotions. The same is true for copyright. This thread here is more about believes than anything else. What a pity.
Let me elaborate a little bit on patents. What was the idea of patents when they were invented? Before we had the first patents all inventions were secrets. And if the inventor died the secret was gone for ever. A patent grants the inventor protection for 10 or 20 years to make money with the invention, on the other hand the inventor was forced to make the documentation of his invention publicly available. No secrets anymore. This was a strong promotion of innovations. Believe it or not, patents have the big advantage that they force companies like apple or google or BMW or Siemens to publish their inventions, their research, with all details. This is a big plus. And you can find scientific studies about patents which proof that patents still have a positive effect on innovations.
Do we have room for improvement in the patent law? Specifically with regard to software patents? Certainly yes. But that is no reason to reject patents completely.
Copyright is basically the same thing. I saw examples here talking about Bach, Mozart, DaVinci, etc. which did not have copyrights. Yes, but these are really bad examples because Bach or Mozart was not copied while he lived and nobody was taking away from him what he did and they could still make their living with their Music. This is different today.
Today, without copyright, If you make music and you compose a new tune Sony Studios can come, take it away from you and make a fortune with it without giving you a dime. The same is true with photographs. Without copyright you better do not put your photos on the web. Otherwise any media company can come and take it away from you - without copyright it is not your photograph anyways, they just take it - and make money with it and you see nothing.
I do not want to live in a world where the big companies take away your inventions or your art from you and make money with it and give nothing to you.
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An interesting thing to consider would be third world/developing countries where there technically are copyright laws, but those laws aren’t really enforced properly, if at all. I don’t know if a situation like this exists, but if it does, then the question arises, how do the artists in those countries make money? Do they make significantly less money compared to what they would get if they released their creations in countries where copyright laws are properly enforced?
I’ll do this on my Windows machine. 
On your WHAT?!?!? 
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How else can i do it. I don’t have malwarebytes on EOS? 
While i have no love for Nvidia, extremism in any sense is never good and often paints the entire group in a bad light. Imagine if this becomes the sort of image most have of those who use OSS? Some already think that and this just reinforces that notion.
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