> Pirating is actually an awful experience for most people, involving shady sites, malicious ads, and a serious risk of malware Yeah, it sucks. It's a pain in

> Pirating is actually an awful experience for most people, involving shady sites, malicious ads, and a serious risk of malware Yeah, it sucks. It's a pain in the ass and does cost some money, plus time. But it solves 3 problems for me: 1) Material can't disappear. I even "pirate" YouTube videos, for this reason. 2) Everything's in one place with a consistent UI. 3) I have access to several things that aren't available to buy or rent, period (and if I'm having to set things up to serve this material, anyway, the marginal cost of pirating more isn't that high) Fix those and, my god, I'd gleefully decommission my pirated-stuff server. Really, fix 1 and 3 and it wouldn't be worth it to keep doing it just for 2.