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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (8 children)

The hunt is part of the fun. Like how people will opt to build a PC or a keyboard over a pre-built or pull out vinyl over digital. The steps taken to retrieve and enjoy the media is sometimes a relaxing process.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, no.

The hunt is only fun if you've got time to spare.

Throw in a spouse, kids, good but demanding job, a place to live, social obligations, detoriating (geriatric) parents, and you're so happy you can just mash one single button and your favourite track, game or series starts to play.

That's the reason why people stop pirating. Time.

When time is not (yet) your most precious resource you can see the fun in anything. Even virus scanning.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't have kids then. Much more free time.

I don't understand

  1. Making the deliberate choice of having kids
  2. Complaining about missing out on other things because of said kids
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Also, complaining about not having time but wasting their time talking to strangers online. I could understand the perspective from someone who doesn't pirate, but to a pirate it is pretty hilarious seeing them making it out as this incredibly difficult time consuming thing like infomercials do.

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