I pay for a VPN and don’t use it for piracy.
I pay for Usenet and I use it for piracy.
Money has never really been a consideration as to whether I pirate or not.
If you want to know why I pirate stuff you can thank Mediacom, after becoming nearly homicidal talking to their “tech support” line for 2 years (I was locked in a 2 year contract), I decided to never pay directly for media again.
12 years and counting
The paranoia is starting to ramp up, now with drones and missiles hitting inside Russia.
My guess is they will crack down hard on anyone trying to talk about the actual reality of what’s going on vs the party line.
A lot of the new stuff I download I don’t actually watch right away, I wait for lulls in programming(such as a writers strike) to binge watch them.
Also I like old movies (the Marx Brothers, etc.)and old, hard to find TV shows (still looking for Strange Luck from the 90s).
(5) 4TB hard drives in a Truenas Core server with Sonarr, Radarr, NZBGet, and Plex plugins.
Kind of a pain to set up the plugins correctly but once it’s running it’s great.
“@plexshares” exists but is empty.
Replacing cows with yeasts that produce whey and casein (the 2 proteins in milk) is already underway. That could go along way to reducing methane and carbon dioxide.
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-yeast-cow.html