I've mentioned something similarly here before (I think during the SOPA stuff): people simply do economically irrational things to take a principled stand. I'v

I've mentioned something similarly here before (I think during the SOPA stuff): people simply do economically irrational things to take a principled stand. I've certainly done things that my friends and family thought were batshit crazy just so I could achieve perceived balance in the universe. My take is that's what we're seeing now and have been for a while. The media companies obviously want our money, but more than that, I think they just don't want you to have access to their content if you didn't pay for it, to break this overwhelming sense of entitlement many of us have. I don't condone the methods, but I don't disagree with the rationale either (providing that actually is the case).