As a long time Pirate of everything, I have found that Gabe Newell was right. > "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost a

As a long time Pirate of everything, I have found that Gabe Newell was right. > "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said. "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable." As soon as a Store offers a better Solution than pirating it, I tend to buy it. Steam being a Prime example. Took ages to build the trust that when I buy something on Steam, it's safe and mine. Whatever the EULA says, at the end of the day, my Steam Stuff feels safe. Add to that the Linux Compatibility (I'd rather pay for a game and have steam deal with compatibility than do it on my own with a pirated copy). Same with Spotify. I can't be bothered to maintain my own music library and music piracy is dead these days anyway. As long as Spotify has all the music I'm happy to pay them to deal with keeping everything up-to-date and well sorted. The moment they fuck up and I can't find the music I want it's either to another provider with a better library or back to piracy. Movies and TV Shows are still broken. Especially here in Germany. Now given the Production Cost I'd arguably accept a little less variety per Service but for me it's more like each Provider has 1-5 things I'm interested in and none has enough to justify buying into them. So Piracy it is. And let's not even talk about the atrocious Quality of the streams we get. Banding everywhere, obvious compression artifacts and annoying DRM Ridden interfaces making it hard to deal with them on Linux. Try watching a Nolan Movie on Netflix on Desktop Linux and fix the horrible Audio Mix via Post Processing. Just Nope. Same is trivial with a pirated Copy (that incidentally also looks better because a 50GB Blue Ray Rip just has more Bits than a Netflix Stream). I haven't even bothered with books so far...