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?
Streaming sucks at the moment so I pirate TV and movies. I’ve recently pirated a few books but that’s mainly because it hadn’t even occurred to me that I could until recently. I’m not a big reader.
I don’t really care about the ethics of it. I used to pirate music in my teens but now we have things like iTunes and Spotify and I don’t feel any reason to now. If TV and movies get back to that, I’ll stop pirating that too.
For me it’s just convenience and saving a bit of money not having 18 subscriptions.