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My cubicle mate pirates everything, even if it's on a streaming site. Books, movies, music, comics, everything. He doesn't seem to care.

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Is it a matter of not caring, or is it simply the easier and better solution?

Even if something is available on a streaming service, you have to deal with low bitrates, missing subtitles and audio tracks, wrong editions, and even ads.

I mean it's clearly not caring about the author of the works. With a Disney movie you're not making a difference in the creators pockets, but an author of a book or a comic do feel the effects of pirating.

Honestly I get it. When you want content _in it's original format_ and want to guarantee that you'll be able to enjoy it in the future, you can't rely on streaming services.

(So many albums from 20+ years ago are only available as remasters on streaming services, and many eBooks these days are DRMed out the wazoo, as I recently learned from setting up Calibre. Speaking of Calibre, Amazon is, soon, going to shut off downloading books. This means that it will be next to impossible to get books THAT YOU PAID FOR off of the platform unless you have a physical Kindle. This does not include Kindle Unlimited books, which, at this time, are still un-decryptable.)

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