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Good on your friend. Poor or not, you should too.
Yes
Justify it ? you seem to suggest it's wrong or something
Do you think there will arise a time where no one would want to pay for the services they want thus watering down the quality of the content for everyone? I mean, I think of whatsapp, If I had to pay a dollar a month/year, I would happily do that, but yeah, that's not gonna happen anyday now.
That's one of the services where everyone refuses to pay, thus resulting in an inferior product (in terms of privacy). So, put this into the picture for piracy, do you think there will be a time where people will just refuse to see movies and this would result in shit movies being produced that no one likes.
The absolute tidal wave of shit media available belies that argument. Quality of material isn't going to be affected, that's produced by creative - who aren't being properly recompensed anyway.
Studios don't care about 'quality content' they care about money. In a world absolutely devoid of piracy they'd release a four hour film of a cat shitting in a box if they thought it would sell.
I think the profit motive isn't the best at producing good quality artistic content; and I think people would still produce it without such a motive.
Mind you on paper I wouldn't even be against paying for a good movie, for example. But I want a .mp4 in x265, with subs, that I can store on my NAS and read with whatever open source software I want to use. None of the legal platforms offer that - piracy literally offers a better service, universally
Same goes for video games: I want a native binary that I can install, that does not phone home at all, and does not have DRM or require a launcher. Only a minute minority of games, even on gog, match those
I think that has already happened to be honest