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?

  • beta_tester@lemmy.ml
    18·
    1 year ago

    Big question.

    I started pirating when netflix took down a show I just started a couple of days earlier.

    It was so easy and so much better that I sticked to it.

    I’ve got hundreds of movies and series within one app. Anytime available. I don’t have to pay a treaming services each month just because I want to watch one movie or series.

    The price companies charge for a movie is too high. They make too much money out of it. There is too much money in the industry. Some people earn too much. There’s too much BS production because it’s easy money. They charge more than it’s worth to me. They show ads. They want me to buy something and never use it. They start producing series instead of movies because you can make more money out of it, instead of producing one damn good movie. Their intensions differ to much from mine.

    A movie that generates a profit of multiple hundreds of million USD does not lead to better production of the next movie. It does not lead to a cheaper price of future or current movies. There’s simply a market distortion that doesn’t work properly.

    There are some people willing to pay 50 bucks per month and there’s me. I pay 0. And the markrt is functioning and the companies still make a shitload of money. Seems alright so far.