Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don’t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the author or just wants to skim through it, he will download the book.
He usually doesn’t like to pirate from small companies or professors who are trying to make a living by selling books, but from millionaires & plenty of mega corps which already have loads of money, he feels like it’s the right move to pirate
Also, have you ever noticed that you have felt that the value of a product has decreased just because you didn’t pay for it, thus you are less interested to read it? i.e., had you paid for the book, you would have more likely read that book.
He says he will buy stuff when his time is more valuable than money, let’s all hope that day is soon.
What are your piracy habits?
I don’t pirate video games. Steam, Gog, or even epic are easy and not too expensive. Steam’s refund policy isnt terrible.
I don’t pirate music. I buy stuff from smaller artists on Bandcamp, and use free Spotify/YouTube/old stuff I ripped myself from CDs (I’m old). Though honestly I don’t have a problem with pirating music that’s like 10+ years old. Copyright law is too long.
I don’t pirate books. I get them from the library.
I may have downloaded some RPG books because I wanted more of a skim than I could find online, didn’t really trust reviewers to have my exact set of preferences, and didn’t want to pay the whole amount for a game I wasn’t sure I’d like. The ones I did like and use I bought.
I don’t really watch anything so it didn’t even occur to me to list it.