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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.
I am with you. Long live the Pirates!