i mean i got really good at piracy as a kid so it's easy. i value it somewhere between the sale price ($10 or whatever) and what i'd pay (idk $1?). like, i don't feel like i'd pay more than $5-10 a month for all my media, it's just not worth more than that to me. because tbh i'm not a huge media consumer (mostly music and books, and a lot of that is old stuff i already have). so anything priced more than the percentage of my media consumption it represents times like $5 isn't worth it to buy.

so if i can pirate it i do, nobody loses. if i can't i just don't consume the media.