I don't care about his other investors, especially those who decide to not accept the terms of the default. They forfeited their right to a share of any settlement by refusing.
You may not care about his other investors, but he has to. And you can't just add new terms to an agreement and declare other parties to have forfeited their rights by refusing your new terms.
That would be scamming, and that's precisely what
didn't happen.
PPT customers agreed to pirate's terms for PPT funds by signing up. At the point where they stop abiding by pirate's terms, they have broken the agreement.
PPT customers had no agreement with Pirate and they certainly had no agreement that required them to do whatever Pirate asked them to do at any time.
As an aside, it's ludicrous to trust pirate (and an anonymous PPT operator) with your bitcoins but not trust pirate with your account info.
I completely and totally don't agree, and I suspect a lot of other people don't either. In any event, other people will have different priorities from you.
Had he passed through information to Pirate, there is no way he could have prevented Pirate from trying to settle his debts directly, depriving other of his investors of their rightful share of those payouts. If you and I each half own a house, you can't cut the house in half, sell half of it, and keep all the profits as "your half". We are each entitled to half of the proceeds of the sale of any part of the house. You are not fully entitled to all the proceeds of the sale of half of it leaving me to try to sell my half by myself.
The recalcitrant other investors have no "rightful share of those payouts" for the reasons I stated above. In contrast, I (by intending to comply) do have a rightful share. And paybtc had no right to deprive me of the opportunity to negotiate or whatever directly with pirate. That's why he deserves a scammer tag.
He absolutely not only had the right to deprive you of that but the
obligation to do so. You, on the other hand, have no right to negotiate with Pirate and deprive his other investors of their rightful share of any payout you might receive.
Fortunately, it didn't make any difference. Not surprisingly, there weren't any payouts regardless. So all he did was prevent Pirate from getting identities where we have no idea what he would have done with them.