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?

  • alokir@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I usually don’t pirate, if something is overpriced then I’ll wait until it’s on sale. I have a set budget every month that I pay for entertainment, if something like a new video game is more expensive I’ll just wait a month.

    I’m especially against pirating products of asshole companies like Adobe. That’s because even if you don’t pay for them you’re still popularizing their products, helping it stay an industry standard. I’m not in a profession where they’re a necessity so I use their competitors like Affinity, which is good enough for my purposes, and I’m ok with supporting them.

    I sometimes watch movies or series on non-legal streaming sites if they’re not available elsewhere, but that’s about it.

    • wax@lemmy.wtf
      2·
      1 year ago

      Good point on not pirating and promoting the alternatives. Didn’t occur to me that a user pirating is one less user for competing products or free software

    • Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m especially against pirating products of asshole companies like Adobe. That’s because even if you don’t pay for them you’re still popularizing their products, helping it stay an industry standard.

      why are adobe assholes btw? I mean, I seriously don’t know. Also, when a company becomes big enough, it’s almost like you are hurting yourself by not pirating their products.