At least for media, piracy websites have a more extensive catalogue (of course) but they also have better privacy which is crazy. And they also allow you to use ad blockers. Sites you pay for would still show ads sometimes and don’t even allow VPNs.

At that point there is no point on paying for streaming and if you wanted to support the creators you could do it separetely with merch, other proyects they have or direct donations if any of those are aviable.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    I started pirating so far back I cannot remember.

    Soon as things started getting too expensive and shitty EULA’s that basically exempt the Software maker from any liability whatsoever. This is what started me pirating.

    I would say it was in the 90’s then I got lazy as things got cheaper but now I think I may start up again. I have ton of rock FLACS and a fair number of movies (a lot of original YIFY’s with subs) I could seed etc. Just need to setup with whatever is used nowadays.