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There are legitimate reasons to pirate, but "I want to consume it but I don't want to pay for it" isn't one of them. That is the mindset of a tool.

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That is not my position. I gladly pay for many season tickets of shows through Amazon, but HBO does not provide this option (or on any competing service).

They do, you need a cable subscription and HBO Go.

You need to buy a package of stuff that you don't want and then pay extra for HBO. That is not reasonable.

Sure, but that doesn't entitle you to just take it since you don't agree to their terms. Just like I can't demand to drive a Ferrari because paying $200k for a car is out of my price range.

I'm entitled to have a sequence of bits on my computer, and to play that sequence of bits in an application capable of doing so. Since I'm a good person I'm willing to give money to the person/company that came up with the sequence of bits but I don't feel obligated to do so if they make the terms wildly out of my favor, that is I'm forced to also purchase other sequences of bits that I have no interest in.

As for your Ferrari example, some day it will be trivially easy to 3D print a Ferrari and we'll be going through the same thing with physical items as we are going through with IP today.

No one is "forcing" you to buy "sequence of bits" of the latest Game of Thrones episode.

Exactly, and I don't.

Therefore your excuse for not legally paying for content is: "I'm cheap and break the law because there's only a very small chance I can get in trouble." Not bad...not bad.

This mindset baffles me. You're entitled to Game of Thrones, and are justified in pirating it because you don't agree with the terms under which it's made available?

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