Exactly! Distributor should not be able to lock you in with exclusive content, this kills the free market of distribution of media

Like now we have competitors fighting against each other for having the best library, but they don’t compete against each other in the case of technology of distribution

For example A disney plus exclusive has a monopol distribution way, there is no competition about how to serve the content. Meaning, there is no incentive to improve distribution. Simple capitalism. Capitalism “works” only in favour of the consumer, as long as the government ensures free market everywhere by regulating too big players who are destroying the whole concept.

If a newcomer can’t enter a market anymore, the market is not free.

You shall not own anything

I grab only video because I refuse to use shitty streaming tech as well as a uncertain ever changing librarys

Private property is theft.

Support creators through word of mouth (telling other people to pirate it)?
There's no one approach, but basically pay if I'm willing to, pirate if I'm not, and sometimes pirate even if I've paid because the experience is better.

Somewhere in between the bottom two.

Copyright laws are the perfect example on how our economic system is flawed. How can you pretend to get money on the abstract concept of someone copying some bites on their computer.

Practicing piracy shows the way for a better system.

Each time I torrent I murmur "This is the way".

Mostly, because DRM sucks, especially on wine. But the other reasons are also good.

Piracy is good, actually.

Come back when games become 1) strictly drm-free no launchers no nothing 2) more affordable worldwide 3) not subject to artificial obsolescence, then we can talk.

I know this sounds like a very stretched analogy at first glance, but it's like a baker trying to prosecute people for smelling their products from outside. But if you think about it, these media companies are literally sending their information out into the air and getting upset when people just listen to that information. Like a smell, internet data is just out there in the air and it's just unreasonable to prosecute people for either smelling or downloading stuff that's permeating the atmosphere. Maybe tape recording radio songs is a tighter analogy but it's the same idea.

Piracy is a correcting action on a massive market distortion. It's a state enforced monopoly on any given idea. You know what other ideology liked state enforced monopolies? Communism.

Companies want to squeeze us for maximum value while providing minimal effort. So they get what they give; they should be competing with "free" but would much rather fruitlessly put up roadblocks that only hurt paying customers, leading more people to piracy. Its delicious and theres nothing they can do to stop it.

Copyright is not valid, it is an unjustified form of tyrannical control. Piracy is pushing back against something that isn't acceptable or justified by refusing to play by their rules.

Anyone who voluntarily supports or apologizes for copyright is neoliberal dirt to me.

Copyright is useful for when you're protecting intellectual property from being stolen by big corporations as a smaller business or private citizen. It's actually the original intent for why it exists in the first place. The problem is that it's rarely used that way and is instead used by big corporations as a battering ram to extract as much wealth as possible from the ones below them.

(...) protecting intellectual property from being stolen by big corporations as a smaller business or private citizen. It’s actually the original intent for why it exists.

Let me discern with you with this. Copyright actually started as a way for censorship, control and profit.

History of Copyright
https://falkvinge.net/2011/02/01/history-of-copyright-part-1-black-death/

Also, trial fees are usually unaffordable for smaller business or citizens in most of the world. Corporations employ different strategies when using "someone else's intellectual property" to avoid problems or persue their suers, and usually get away with it.

Piracy is for Trillion Dollar Companies | Gamer Nexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtBgB7iS8c

Well i have no other choice but piracy

Why the mental gymnastics to basically say "Hey, i really like free shit!"

I have a different opinion entirely: piracy is not like theft, it's like tax evasion (or, for indie games, like sneaking into a concert without a ticket). It's a bit stingy, but it's perfectly understandable in certain cases, and in general not that bad of a thing morally