So in this case a scam would be when you pay the price the author wants and not a scam is when you just take it?

I get that the pirates would be against NTFs that are the tech of future DRM systems, but they could at least be honest about it. They aren't a scam, or killing the planet etc. they are bad because they are useful for copyright.

I found this intro useful: https://nftschool.dev