I'm so confused.

I get that he did it for his own gain, but he funded the cracking of a proprietary DRM encryption scheme.

Isn't the HN community anti-MPAA, anti-copyright-extension, pro-information freedom? How is this against those ideas?

The only victims I can see here are a DRM enforcement company and content producers. I thought we already agreed they were behemoths ready to be destroyed? And here we have someone financing their destruction and we don't like them?

Is it that all that rhetoric about destroying Hollywood was to destroy them without breaking the very laws we're protesting?

(this is an honest question. Please respond before downvoting.)