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I only pirate TVs/Movies. Streaming is in such a shitty state that I don't want to figure out what service is on what, and I'm certainly not going to subscribe for just one thing to watch. I feel no remorse.
This, the difficulty of simply paying for the things you want. I used to pirate music back in the IRC/pre-Napster days, and then iTunes came out. "I can just click a button and the song is on my computer, high quality, no fuss?" That was the end of music pirating for me.
I have Amazon Prime and I've tried Netflix in the past. The amount of time I spent sorting through their shit movies to find something worth watching was abysmal, not to mention no way to filter out the huge influx of low-budget non-English content.
Difficulty paying for the things speaks to me. I have musical tastes, esp. in bootleg remixes, such that there is no way to legally buy many of the tracks and CD length megamixes I like.
I actually want to pay for these things but there's not really a way to do that.
Trying to find something to watch on Netflix was exhausting. Basically looking up every show on the mobile for imdb rating / rotten score etc to see if its worthwhile. I don't watch that much TV, so I'm not going to binge any crappy show or movie