Internet piracy

I been downloading recently a bunch of mangas (japanese comic book for those who don't know) and I been thinking if I really am making a crime? I mean, there's a bunch of sites providing you with scanlations of various mangas!!! The same is with music and movies. You have those p2p programs, torrents and so on. I actually download movie from one site and there are around 3700 movies to download! I don't download single songs but whole albums just because I can.
Let's be serious. Most of the movies are not available here in Poland. I believe I have my right to download them as I can't get them. I like originals. I buy original movies, CDs or even comic books. But sometimes the price is so high that I just can't afford it. Why should i give around 40PLN for a lousy DVD with no extras, or 70PLN for a Timbaland new album just because there's a great book inside? I realize it all costs but no wonder people download instead of buying if the prices are high.
They say that piracy is spreading but who is to blame? We, who download? Or maybe the producers of empty CDs and DVDs that gave us a chance to record what we want. Or Apple for producing the first mp3 player and therefore making downloading mp3s even more popular. It's so cool to go somewhere and be able to listen of 30GBs of music not to mention of availability to watch movies on my iPod.
Sorry to say but fighting with sites providing people with music, movies even computer programs is useless. They close one site and another five is created.
A few months ago our police did something "spectacular"! They closed the best site with movie subtitles www.napisy.org. They say they were braking the law. Wow! They caught real criminals. Kudos to the police. apparently, it gave nothing because all the translators posted their transaltion on a different site :).
Also, movie distributors make us download pirate movies from Internet. Some movies are in Poland even 10 months after world premiere e.g. “Pan’s Labirynth” the word premiere was on 2006-05-27 and the Polish was on 2007-03-30. You see what I mean?
So am I a pirate? Even if I don’t care because I don’t wanna wait don’t know how long for a movie I want to watch. Cheers.