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Originally Posted by Suicane75
What difference would it make? Oh yeah, I'd be paying them an extra $120 a year.
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I think your honesty on this is refreshing and I don't have any huge moral problem with it or anything, but this definitely does put a dent in others' justification that "if only there were a legal/convenient means to get something we'd pay for it."
It's interesting to me too that that the justifications for piracy have evolved. We've definitely had threads here where people have strongly argued that piracy has no impact on anyone's business because they wouldn't have bought the stuff if they didn't pirate it. I don't see that argument as much anymore. Now, the bigger argument seems to be the opposite, inconsistent one, that not only does piracy impact the entertainment industry, but it impacts it in a positive way for the consumer, and it even helps propel content delivery technology forward. And then there's a few people being honest like you who can admit, "this way I spend less money".