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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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I pirate mostly out of convenience, I just want access to whatever media I'm interested in and if there's a subscription wall between it and me, then more often than not it's just easier for me to pirate it than bothering to pay for it
This is likely the viewpoint if the wast majority.
If it's hard to get through legal means, and comparatively easy to acquire through alternate means? Whelp, guess what is gonna happen...
If I remember correct, then we saw a decline in piracy when Netflix became big, but now that they have become just as convoluted and bugged down as everybody else, I've personally started seeing more interest in piracy on the internet again.
Yep. Netflix removed a lot of my need to pirate, it was so convenient. Then every studio decided they needed their own streaming service and kept increasing prices while quality went down, so now I’m back to pirating.
I’ve always pirated anime tho. For a long time a lot wasn’t available legally and even once it was, I find fan subs to be much better than the official sources.