The through-line that communities like Bluesky's creator circles are drawing between piracy sympathy and AI copyright enforcement is not a reversal of principles — it is a consistent application of a single principle across a changed landscape. The user who described 'the piracy advocate to wanting anyone with standing to sue Sam Altman into the ninth circle of hell pipeline' [2] is not experiencing ideological whiplash. They are describing a world where the entity doing the extracting has changed from a major label or a studio to a venture-backed AI…