Title: I have a confession, I pirate a lot of content. Mostly TV&#x2F;Movies. That being said, piracy is pretty expensive.<p>I built a computer with ~30TB of hard drive space. That, conservatively, cost me $1200. It&#x27;s an older computer, with a lot of hard drives and it&#x27;s probably costing me around $45 per month in power. I&#x27;m going to want to add more storage space soon, and have about $500 slated for that. I pay a usenet subscription, and subscription to indexers, for let&#x27;s say $10 per month...<p>So if I stopped pirating I&#x27;d have saved $1200 and still have a budget of $55 per month for streaming services.<p>So why do I still pirate? Well one thing is show availability. There are some must-have shows that simply aren&#x27;t available in my region (not the US), so I already have to have the piracy infrastructure in place if I want to watch them.<p>I also very much appreciate having a local copy. It&#x27;s not like steam where I can just download whatever I want and play it offline (I do mostly buy steam content, if it&#x27;s on steam I probably don&#x27;t bother to pirate).<p>Streaming services still have significant service problems that need to be addressed.
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