The NRA has clearly been insulated by the portion of unadulterated good it does: few would argue that training Americans to use guns safely in a society that prizes its constitutional right to carry firearms forlegitimate purposes (including sport and hunting) is vitally important work.
That said, we can agree with both Sarandos and BitTorrent as they more or less agree with each other: Users with legitimate access to the content they want will generally use that access instead of using tools like BitTorrent for piracy.
Let me be clear, I am not among those who believe that we ought to use the defense budget as a jobs program or that we should be pursuing military programs for other than legitimate defense purposes.