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The real problem with piracy: Too much choice! (self.piracy)
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I think overall that piracy is good.

It returns control over media, instead of being bound to specific platforms or stores.
It allows you to test things on your hardware, before committing to a purchase.
It makes it possible to recover old media that you physically lost.
It makes your media portable, able to copy it to a new device or hardware without being locked out.
It makes things sharable, able to give a copy to a friend to have them try it out.

But one thing I find difficult is just the sheer amount of things that exist nowadays.
I don't know how you guys manage it, but I have more media on just my laptop (external drives and such excluded) than I could really enjoy in my lifetime. How to even make choice of what to watch, play, read, next?

I know, very much a first-world problem. But still, it boggles my mind.

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[–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

I definitely don't hoard much. Especially since you can just download anything again when needed.

I have a friend who keeps a stash of downloaded movies thats several TBs big. Never understood that.

But making a choice seems to be difficult for me. How does one develop their taste. I feel like after playing all these games and watching al these movies, i still feel interested in everything. And I'm unable to tell based on just the cover or a review whether I would like it or not.

For movies I actually don't like looking at reviews or trailers at all because they often show too much already.

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