I will pay for content if possible.
But have no qualms about using a dodgy stream if there is no reasonable option for me to do so. Such as a boxing fight where you have to first be signed up to a $1200 a year sky subscription before you can even pay a further $60 to access the fight.
I'm even willing to use VPN to pay for the content before I look to a free website to stream it. But then I'm told that's wrong too. They want to have their cake and eat it too, so I have no sympathy for them that people use these streams. It's simply a cost of their distribution model.