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Do you have any suggestions on the prefered skin color or ethnicity of the people who need to be workers ?
Piracy is not just a way of getting content for free it's also a way not to lose money.
Low quality content is being intentionally sold to you. Just look at some books on programming, they trick you on thinking that they do have quality info, but in fact are just lazy rewrites of specifications or man pages. I also remember reading from HN about a guy who made millions by selling total garbage books on amazon.
Eventually if I found a good book I buy it as a way to thank the author, but buying books before reading them it is just a way to motivate people to produce more mediocre content.
KickStarter allow small producers to fund themselves, YouTube allow to monetize your views.