You are just hoarding data which is a different "hobby" and piracy is merely a component of it. And, yes, this hobby is expensive. Do not go around saying tha

You are just hoarding data which is a different "hobby" and piracy is merely a component of it. And, yes, this hobby is expensive. Do not go around saying that piracy is expensive. There is also a similar side to it. You are _storing_ a lot of data. What if you decided to _play_ (games) instead? You would have needed more expensive hardwares. And a lot of power. Here _gaming_ would be more expensive. What is expensive is your datahoarding habits, and not piracy. You are also comparing apples to oranges here (watching movies vis-a-vis storing them). A more obvious a-to-o comparison is buying a Spotify subscription versus playing CoD: WW2 from a pirated source. You see, the second is more expensive than the first. So, 1. Piracy is not expensive, your datahoarding habits are (plenty of people watch pirated content on 300-400$ laptops and 200$ phones.) 2. You are comparing apples to oranges.