I used to pirate a lot more when I couldn’t afford to fill my media desires. Nowadays I’m a bit more principalled, I’m not paying collector prices for old super Nintendo games for instance. That shit gets emulated and if I’ve already bought a game on console, especially if I bought a standard and “complete” edition, I’ll likely piratd a PC copy for modding and the like.

Though sometimes a piece of art is created by a morally bankrupt company and while I typically just ignore the things they produce, sometimes I really want to try it, so I pirate it.