"Piracy" violates copyright law. Counterfeiting (notice no scare quotes) violates trademark law. "Pirate" wares have a much smaller market (to people who weren't going to buy the real thing anyway) without the corresponding trademark violations to trick normally honest customers into buying the illegally copied works. Enforcing trademarks also needs to preserve fair use rights (use in parody, etc), but in general seems to be less problematic to enforce.
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Independents care about independents. I could care less about Britney Spears, I just don't want to get sued for playing music that I wrote.
"Piracy" violates copyright law. Counterfeiting (notice no scare quotes) violates trademark law. "Pirate" wares have a much smaller market (to people who weren't going to buy the real thing anyway) without the corresponding trademark violations to trick normally honest customers into buying the illegally copied works. Enforcing trademarks also needs to preserve fair use rights (use in parody, etc), but in general seems to be less problematic to enforce.