A few books are getting pirated and the knowledge in those books is furthering our understanding of the world (among many other helpful uses).

I’d call that the opposite of “suffering”.

That is an excellent way of looking at things - if a distillation attack against a model is bad, so should be a distillation attack against mankind. I'd argue that this suggests the former should be legal, rather than the latter becoming illegal.

I think they should rename company to Misanthropic due to the excessive scale they are distilling humanity.