I honestly think that you and everyone else who reasons that way are missing some points.
Don't worry to much about the illegal copying, since everyone who is going for ATPLs still have to be registered in an official ground school and attend class.
It's not like the FAA world, where i can ready any FAA publication get an instructor to endorse me and off i am to take my written test.
We need to work on better distance learning systems, the companies that provide them could record the onsite class on provide it online, record once sell many times...