Mondez

Even if they would otherwise have subscribed, that money will be spent elsewhere in the economy, its potential revenue the streaming companies couldn't secure, it's not a loss to the economy unless it's a foreign user.

Can't see how it can, it's not like if that money isn't spent on entertainment then it's just lost, it's just spent on other goods and services or put in savings that the banks loan out to other people to generate economic activity. Unless people are literally burning the money or exclusively spending it on foreign goods and services it's not costing the economy per se.

Tragedy of the commons? Everyone wants to use it, no one wants to put forward the resources to maintain it.

Copyright infringement for me but not for thee.

Won't someone think of the billion dollar businesses?

Pirated content of course has no advertising in it, so it makes sense to pay good money for a service that has adverts in it or how else am I going to learn about all those fabulous products I just have to buy?

Doesn't matter for a distribution, Apple historically also shipped some gpl tools like bash and Samba, they just provide the source for what they have to.

They'll just do an Apple and publish the source to the bits they have to while keeping the bits they don't closed source making the os as a whole closed source.

Disappointed to see so many people picking and choosing what is and isn't acceptable to pirate.

We don't know the OP circumstance and it's a big assumption that he can just pay and it not be an issue in some way.

Average people deserve to get paid but we aren't talking about scamming some custom content out of them, they already made the material in question and it's a sunk cost, selling copies is as much rent seeking behaviour as when it's done by big companies.

Also, let's not use emotive incorrect language like "stealing" as it's not, it's copyright infringement, no one is stealing anything.

How do you even start to quantify something like a TV show? Without piracy would you have had subscription services, seen it free when it came on local TV and/or bought a box set of it? Similar situations exist for other media too, which "full price" are we talking about?

Hence the term "sunk cost fallacy".

It's more like the old school file sharing networks of like napster and emule. You give it a directory to share and it makes files in those directories available to download on the network and you can download what other people are sharing.