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?
When I was a broke-ass college student I pirated a lot of things. When I started working properly and finally had my own means, I started buying basically everything. Then the post-covid world brought a lot of changed to my life and income and I’m a little back on the piracy train.
There’s a lot of factors, for me. If I want to support a product, I won’t pirate it. I recently picked up Sea of Stars, because it’s a small team indie title made with love, and it shows. Likewise, if I am on the fence about something for some reason, I may “demo” it first and if it keeps my attention, I’ll end up buying it.
Sometimes there’s past experiences that keep me off of some games. I strictly won’t buy Ubisoft’s PC releases, and haven’t played an Assassin’s Creed game in years because of that. After every debacle with them, between uPlay, account issues and the performance/quality of their PC ports, they just don’t deserve my money.