>>509375647
>people want free shit
I am surprised that I disagree
I think that this was an argument in the, say, 70s and boomers usually throw this out when they're asked about "piracy"
semi-modern pirates will tell you that it's not about "piracy" anymore, and that it's about "preservation of content", which in many cases now it has started to be true because economic processes are happy to wipe out old stuff that does not have any economic use
lastly, now with excessively large governments and the outreach of "security", I think it has exceeded just the simple notion that "most people are poor" and it's going to be a matter of survival
like even if you're a rich Jew working for a top company, you sure you want to access that porn site and use your ID to identify to get access to some porn? I do not think you will, imagine that stuff being leaked and you're definitely not poor...
the short-term vision of mouth-breathers just doesn't see these things, they'll have dirt on anyone, including themselves, lol and then nobody will want to cooperate anymore or they'll just be nasty