I pirate. I don’t justify pirating. I just do it, because I want things and have the ability to get them for free, so I do that.

1. Yeah, sometimes.

2. I justify it if it’s me getting free stuff from rich and greedy game dev companies, publishers, streaming services, large record companies, etcetera. They were never going to see my money anyways, so it’s not like they are losing any money (despite the fact they claim that they lose money from people who were never gonna buy their products in the first place).

3. Again, they were never gonna see my money, so why should I care so long as I don’t get caught? Hell, even if piracy somehow became impossible, they’d still never see my money. With music, it’s more complicated since I usually just download songs off of YT to listen to on my phone or desktop.

Though, I will say that I will never buy into music streaming since I cannot say with certainty that whoever I’m listening to will get even a percent of a percent of a penny off me listening, while the service gets pretty much 100% of the profit and leaves the artists in the dust.

I pirate when getting a copy of something is otherwise too inconvenient and/or ridiculously overpriced and I REALLY need to watch it. I used to pirate basically everything. Nowadays very often I will wait for and then rent a movie on iTunes because that is the most convenient way and the price is fine. My FOMO is not as strong anymore. I also rarely watch any series that is not on a streaming service.

Only thing I’ve pirated was a show with no reasonable means to access it legitimately in my region. Hell, I couldn’t even access it via VPN because the services it was on didn’t accept my card due to region.

Normally of the mind that if it isn’t worth my money it isn’t worth my time, but in this case I just wasn’t allowed to pay them for it. Hardly my fault when they’ve gone that far out of their way to block me buying it.

I just don’t earn enough money to justify paying for movies, games and books, i can use those money to pay my bills and what little left after paying my bills, i save it for future

If something is not for sale, I have no qualms about pirating it. Disney vault, abandonware, obsolete versions, etc.

I pay for my audiobook streaming because it doesn’t cost so much and you cannot pirate the books I listen to anyway

yes. don’t need to justify it. if there’s a game I want to play but I’m not sure that it’s worth the price, I’ll pirate it. same goes for movies or books or whatever. I don’t even know how normies watch movies these days, I’ve never had a Netflix account.

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?

Nope.

I would pirate even if it were stealing. In fact, if a company lost real money every time I pirated something, I would make an effort to pirate more often.

Yes. Yes, because I fucking can. And if I love a movie so much I want to own it, I buy the bluray, no I don’t that’s a lie

I will pirate it if it’s old (tv series from the 80’s, for example) or if I can’t get it legally. I live in a country that falls through distribution loopholes moderately often. Like right now, I can’t watch the latest season of Lower Decks on prime even though I could the previous ones. Some kind of licensing thing. If it’s not resolved soon, I’ll be taking to the high seas for it.

I started pirating because it was the default for me. I was a young child and I had access to the family computer I had no money so I learned how to pirate before I learned how to buy games also piracy is real popular in my country because its poor af. Later on I became political and relized mega corps didn’t need my money, lots of other people were throwing their money into these bottomless pits anyway. About indie games I try to buy them but since I now am a teenager with no money and in a lot poorer country I tend to pirate them anyway even though its wrong

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

Even if you paid for everything, most likely these professors are barely going to get anything out of it. They get into shitty contracts with big publishers. So unless they publish stuff on their own, you’re not really helping them by buying their books. Oftentimes, you can just email the profs and they’ll send you a free pdf of their stuff because they just want to get their ideas out there and don’t care too much about the money.

I pay for music because it is easy. I don’t pay for video because there is no avenue like spotify for video

If I have legally purchased content or an application, and that content or application is no longer available for some reason, then I feel justified pirating.

A game that requires an online connection but the company took down the servers and won’t release the code for example.

There is no legitimate way for me to use the thing I already bought.

Other than that, I’m just too lazy to do it any more.

When I was young and poor, there was various software I did pirate, but now days there is nothing I need that the company won’t pay for.