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by ultramancool 3569 days ago
Yeah, if your rationale isn't "it's easy and cheap", you're probably full of shit.

When it's to the point where I can push a button and have a TV show pop up on my NAS viewable on all my devices in a few minutes (yay Sonarr) or try to find somewhere to go buy it in some weird DRM-encumbered form that I can't even copy to my phone, well, I know what I'm doing.

I can't be assed to pay for things anymore. My sheer laziness is more valuable to me than other people's hard work and I won't even try to deny it, put me in front of a computer and I go into complete utilitarian mode.

This probably applies to more people than will care to admit it and it's exactly why the "piracy is a service problem" attitude is the only one to really put a dent in piracy in the past decade.