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 used to pirate anything. Music, movies, softwares, games…
Since I have a developer job and a stable income, I don’t really pirate much stuff anymore, only movies and series, but then the whole piracy thing is not even illegal here where I live.
Maybe softwares, too, if I can’t find any free and/or open source alternative of it.
For games and music, I like to pay, if I can. If it’s expensive, I wait to some sale.
And also, with pirated stuff, you always end up something doesn’t work or missing or you just have to make compromises. Fuck that, I’m too old for that.
One aspect of pirating is appealing to me tho - preservation. Anything you can’t go and just buy because of dead services or just time going by needs to be preserved. It applies for hardwares, too. Liberating closed hardware and software is a noble thing in my eyes, and it justifies piracy.