Originally Posted by mineistaken

As far as I remember he was hated when his company was not that big, just right after he started stealing content.

Plus it is natural that well known thieves gets more hate. Its because they are well known. Small thief has 10 people who knows about him, big thief is well known and has 1000 that knows about him. So I understand why to some it looks like he is hated for success. But actually its just natural that the more known thief will have more haters, just because more people know what he does.