I think it's worth to differentiate here profit going to actual people responsible for making a piece of media vs profit going to middlemen. I have no problems

I think it's worth to differentiate here profit going to actual people responsible for making a piece of media vs profit going to middlemen. I have no problems screwing over the middlemen By vast majority they are shitty, predatory companies that abuse the position that they're in to screw over both consumers and creators, and probably avoid taxes too. But I'd rather pay people that actually made the stuff I enjoy because I want more of it. > You can bet you ass that if I were touring the world giving sold-out concerts to 50k people at $200/ticket, 4 times a day, 4 days a week, I would not care if some bunch of random teenagers -that would have never paid for my music in the first place- download it off some torrent site. That only because the losses are insignificant if you have enough money to not worry about money. It's different thing for smaller creators.