> I hope they are not proud about it.
But like the parent post I have no shame or guilt in not paying for content. And I'm proud about being clever!
It may be a mentality, as I do think people are stupid to pay for a DRM ebook while libgen has it without DRM. But if it takes more than 2 minutes to find it, I buy it.
For ebooks, there are scribd, kindle, oreiley, and libraries. And to be honest, you probably won't read most of books you downloaded anyway. It is just a waste of your time in the end. At least if you buy it, you will only buy those you are going to read.
I'm not poor, far from it, yet I still use stremio to stream movies just as conveniently as netflix without paying a dime. It's wrong. There is no way to justify what I'm doing. Yet me and many other people both in America and in China use the app without the need for justification.
Don't think that the guilt you feel is something other people feel. I can assure you I feel nothing.
It's unfortunate, I recognize it's wrong, but at the same time... I don't actually care.
You can vote me down, but I'm being candid here. There are tons of people like me and most of them won't be candid about there apathy towards piracy, so this is a window into our mindset if you're a person who can't relate. If you want to make the world a better place you need to account for bad actors in any model because they can never be fully eliminated.
> It's unfortunate, I recognize it's wrong, but at the same time... I don't actually care.
Same for me!
Sure I may buy stuff if it's more convenient. But that's not the issue here. The issue here is that I and many others are capable of cheating and won't shy away from it if a viable opportunity presents itself. Same with pretty much a good chunk of people in China.