illegally downloading long ignored art

While i was in Romania i did a lot of downloading, mostly on films that are unavailable, like Angelopoulos films, here's a list -

the travelling players; suspended step of the stork; voyage to cythera; landscape in the mist; the hunters; dust of time; en rachachant; films of jiri trnka; mr klein; blood of the beasts; las hurdes; lola (both fassbinder and demy); bay of angels; fear eats the soul; the outlaw and his wife; peter and the wolf; the unknown; waxworks; cria cuervos; the celebration; jigokumon; tale of tales; hedgehog in the fog; kriemhilds revenge; chimes at midnight; night and fog; la regle du jeu; the southerner; five women around utamaro; sisters of the gion; ugetsu monogatari; the phantom carriage; from the life of the marionettes; day of wrath; gertrud; the bigamist; van gogh; the man from london; bonjour tristesse; dinner at eight; partie de campagne; violette noziere; raise the red lantern; shanghai triad; the story of qiu ju; fires on the plain; hotel terminus; the tough; mortal storm; il grido; wr mysteries of the organism; the switchboard operator; man is not a bird; innocence unprotected; fists in the pocket; the big clock; criss cross; chats perches; le tombeau d'alexandre; the bitter tears of petra von kant; l'amour l'apres midi; floating clouds; a time to live and a time to die; la religieuse; lonesome cowboys; la notte; marriage of maria braun; the mother and the whore; truly madly deeply; wit; late spring; floating weeds; buster keaton shorts; masters of russian animation; a century of animated shorts 1, 2 and 3.

and i think that was about it. The majority of which are brilliant films, and are unavailable so far. Last time i checked, the only angelopoulos you could buy were the beekeeper and weeping meadow, the only sjostrom was.. well, nothing. Same with makavejev, and yuri norstein, and jiri trnka..... and the list goes on. I fail to see why sharing such things (as great art) should be frowned upon.