No, it's not. If I pay for a movie, but I then download it from The Pirate Bay, it's still piracy, but nobody loses anything. I recently went over my media col

No, it's not. If I pay for a movie, but I then download it from The Pirate Bay, it's still piracy, but nobody loses anything. I recently went over my media collection and did some conservative guesstimation of my spending over the last 20 years. I've paid over 6 figures to consume various sorts of media. I have absolutely zero moral or ethical qualms with downloading and/or pirating content I've already paid for. I don't give a flying fuck if the copyright holder doesn't like the means by which I get the content. The studios and copyright lobby and mafiaa are not good faith operators. Piracy is not theft. Sometimes it's ethical and justified. I WANT to pay. I want to give a streaming service money to curate, deliver, and maintain a library of high quality content. The industry doesn't want that to be possible, because it interferes with the bad-faith rentseeking games played with royalties and residuals. I'm done playing pretend, and will happily Pirate even new content I haven't paid for. I will pay when there's the opportunity for good faith commerce. I'll buy discs and files directly where possible.