Is this the hour of my discontent?

I had a good chat with one of my professors today in which I expressed some concern over my own views on copyright. They keep changing. When I was young (we're talking around 10-12), my uncles would occasionally send me a big box of computer discs. Hacked games. I'd have eight or nine games on a disc. I played them all, and I'm sure that experience is what led me to my love for gaming that I have now.
But they were undoubtedly a violation of copyright law.
So, there's a history of piracy in my family, that happened at an age when I was young and impressionable. There's something of an attraction to that for me. I love walking around and going "arrrr". More than that, I enjoy that sense of pleasure that occurs when some company spends millions of dollars creating CD protection for music, and someone else, within days of its release, cracks it using a Sharpie pen that probably cost less than a dollar. It's fun to be the pirate. And the music industry isn't competing with free downloads in the market sense. (Value-addition is what we need!)
But at the same time, I'm getting a real sense of possible harm to something that's really near and dear to me, and that's entertainment in all its various and sundry forms, and so I find myself sometimes defending big companies on copyright issues that come up in discussions. And that really sticks in my craw.
Bah, anyway.
Today was the small firm fair. Not a lot of firms there, and for some odd reason, every one I talked to said that they were only hiring first years, where last year every one wanted second and thirds. Ugh. Also, not a lot of people (dare I say no one) was really doing anything that interested me. Shall I never find a decent job in this economy?!? Ah well. I'm signed up for the Intel presentation, and they've apparently got some clerking opportunities for the summer. And it's the next best thing to my dream: being in-house counsel to a game company like id. Not that id has in-house counsel, but SOMEBODY has to help those guys write their licensing contracts and defend against tort lawsuits. (id software were the guys who created "DOOM", and were sued after the Columbine shootings because their games allegedly goaded impressionable teenagers into becoming murderers.)