> Yeah. To be fair. The people who pirate were likely never going to buy it in the first place. That's a tad bit too simplified. There have by now been several

> Yeah. To be fair. The people who pirate were likely never going to buy it in the first place. That's a tad bit too simplified. There have by now been several studies/reports [0] [1] that found people pirating a certain media, are also spending most of their disposable income on said media. Sure, there's also the "I don't want to waste my money on possible garbage" curiosity/test-drive piracy. But a very large chunk are just people who enjoy the medium so much that they can't get enough of it. So they will spend all their monthly disposable income on it, and when that's gone, they will pirate because of the FOMO created by marketing hype around the newest release getting thrown at them. It's very much a manifestation of the consumerism that gets glorified in most modern societies. [0] https://torrentfreak.com/0-more-on-content-than-honest-consumers-130510/ https://torrentfreak.com/0-more-on-content-than-honest-consu... [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pirates-tend-to-be-the-biggest-buyers-of-legal-content https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pir...