It does not, and that was not the intent with what I said.

I’m saying piracy (in general, as a practice) is preservation, because torrents help preserve media since they inherently allow for more resilient, redundant, decentralized hosting that isn’t reliant on a provider, like Myrient, which can just shut down.

What I’m not saying is that piracy and torrenting are the same thing, that torrents are only for piracy, or that this is piracy.