Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

There's a child of books that I've bought in this way.

Also I bought some books that I've pirated, to support the author.

Piracy is my main resort been doing it so long. After HD-DVD lost I was done buying media. Don't get me wrong I still pirated before that but it was more renting and ripping DVDs.

I give up on having that thing. I'm unemployed, I don't have any income at all. When I have a well paying job though I'd rather just pay, there are a lot of people I would like to support.

Depends on how expensive it is, what kind of license the paid version has, how willing I am to support the creator. Music I’ll try and get from bandcamp or failing that an actual cd from their site of I really must. TV I’ll usually just look harder and settle for a worse quality than I’d prefer.

Depends. Sometimes I'll give it up all together. If I think it's worth it I'll buy it. Other times I thought it wouldn't be worth it and I pirate it and then I end up buying it afterwards. Other times I just wait for a steep discount/sale.

Give up. I never buy something I can't try out. There have been several games that caught my eye but were not available, and so I simply moved on

When I was in college, often yes, as the "free" thing was typically a textbook I needed to actually pass a class.

Nowadays? Meh, I probably don't need that random movie that bad. I have so little time for entertainment that if I can't get it from a torrent site in a few minutes I just find something else.

so, usually if i can't find it through direct download or torrent, i might try asking around, or looking in open directories even, and if all of that fails i lay awake at night Really bothered

I never pay Capitalist corps/people unless pressured to a corner (most groceries, loans etc). I know they cheat, steal and lie - pretty much 24/7 - as their 'free market' gospel dictates, so any support for such a selfish/psychopathic organization are like shooting my self in the foot.

Intellectual 'property' is a special anti-intellectual joke that have emerged inside an existing Capitalist dystopia where everyone have to fight everyone else for their lives. So suddenly, some Capitalist smuck could whistle a tune, declare that sequence of sounds as "MY PROPERTY" and then - through violence! - everyone around the world have to pay this moron for the sequence of sounds. It doesn't get much more dumb than that. We even see cities 'protect' their landmarks, so a f'ing photo is illegal without paying up, copyright for well known everyday things, and so on. It is incredibly easy to find insane examples. It's all a race to the bottom, sigh.. Oc, Capitalism have zero to do with 'free markets', and everything to do with warring/exploitation/protectionism - but all corps will always exploit.

Unfortunately, Capitalism runs on pure scarcity, so we can't have surplus objects that can just be copied, tsk tsk, what disorder !! And of cause, if one lives in such a crappy backwards society, then everyone HAVE to fight for data that can be copyrighted, data that could otherwise be copied a gazillion times for everyones joy. So, Instead of free access to all that can be freely copied/enjoyed, we have capitalist silo's of 'property', where everyone are forced to pay up to a conglomerate of capitalist cancer-like entities that will go to any length - even jailing people that refuse that violent/ridiculous property nonsense. No no, for propertarians, it's better to slam everyone in the world with laws/threats of harm, to invade peoples privacy, and to have a whole multi-trillion business market, and an insane amount of law resources constantly working to keep this joke of a principle running. It all arose from out of that flawed premise of everyone fighting everyone else.. Inefficient, stupid, and all just an unnecessary emergent artifact on top of the dumbest ideology the oligarchs ever invented.

Depends on the thing, how much money I have, and whether I think it's worth it for the price they're charging.

Like when I don't have time to make bread I just steal it from loblaws.

I am far too poor to afford to buy shit. If I can’t pirate shit, I just do without. The only thing I pay for is music because they did it right. Mostly the same music on every platform. None of this exclusive bullshit. Plus it’s easier than piracy. Plus I listen to so much music

did it one textbooks one time, when i couldnt find it to pirate like 10 years ago. they were going hard against any newer versions before, and against the torrents/downloaders who were hosting the pirates.

Really depends on what it is but I usually wait until there’s an good sale of said product.

For example;

• Persona 3 Reload. Can’t be cracked normally due to Denuvo, so waited until there was a decent sale and then bought it together with a Voucher. So I only costed me €15 instead of the full price.

• Stellar Blade has Denuvo too but I refuse to purchase it. Doesn’t have a good sale nor do I have any vouchers left.

If it's a physical object, I do what i need to do. But I've developed the policy that I don't pay real money for unreal things. And anything I cannot experience with all five senses is unreal.