Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Foss pretty much exclusively, but how easily possible this is really depends on what you do.

FOSS if I can find a good Windows alternative to what I need.

Warez if I can find a trustworthy release, but it's kinda rare these days.

For tools and stuff: FOSS

For games: No need to pirate thanks to Epic overloading me with free stuff. If I want something specific, keyforsteam usually does the trick for a very reasonable amount of money.

Both of these categories are just not worth it to risk a potential infection due to malware in the pirated stuff.

The only places where I do do some pirating are:

• TV shows/movies if they aren't on the two streaming services that I pay for
• Games for the hacked retro consoles that I own
• Android apps that I can hack myself

These categories are pretty safe

I don't trust any proprietary software. I don't like putting a lot of work into something only to have the rug pulled out from under me by an arbitrary change from the dev. Open source means I can always keep using the software, even if it means I have to push code myself.

FOSS all the way. I don't want to be dependent on proprietary software as much as possible.

Most of the time FOSS, but things like After Effects that already has a huge community or plugins or things that make it super easy to use, then I just pirate it.
Yes, I know there are alternatives, but most of the time the curve to learn how to achieve the same thing is much more steep or it lacks the free plugins/presets that make it simple for a normal home user that might use it every now and then to create a shitpost or something.

usually use FOSS, it has been long since I pirated software

If kdenlive was even in the same ballpark of usability as Premiere maybe, but so far it's not even in the same country.

Mostly FOSS these days. There's just so many options now. There's a few things I have from the old days as I've updated from Windows 7 through 10 over the years.

I always search for a foss alternative first when it comes to software games are a fairgame for piracy tho unless they are indie

FOSS by default. Proprietary if an absolute must

Both actually, there are certain softwares like photoshop, ms office suite,idm etc. that I pirate. I try to use foss for almost everything else.

The last software I aquired unconventionally was photoshop. Then came windows 10 and my migration to linux, so that was the end of adobe on my systems.

FOSS. Not everywhere though. I still use windows and still use SwiftKey. I'm just not adept enough for Linux. I tried it. SwiftKey will be switched eventually.

i have slowly bought games i started playing 20+ years ago on steam for a few dollars each on sale. i largely use FOSS i still pirate windows i don't play AAA games the new games i play are largely free/crossplay/splitscreen

yes

Always FLOSS I even stopped my hobby of producing music because Ardour was just not good enough for that.

Other than Windows I guess everything I use is Foss with only few free stuff (like visual studio). And it's a lot. Many different Software.

I used to pirate everything. But, I have never used/installed any commercial software since I jumped onto the FOSS bandwagon since at least 2010. I love the freedom! I even support the developers when I can.

I mostly pirate games and when I play 10 - 20 hours and like the game, I buy them. Exceptions are when it's EA, because fuck EA and their greedy bullshit. I'd rather burn €10,- than to give it to EA

Used to pirate apps all the time but I started getting into Linux and learn more about privacy. Now i just look for foss alternatives and have stopped pirating apps altogether.

Both

If there's a free software alternative to what I want to pirate, I always use that instead. Software is like sex. It's better when it's free.

I only really need Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Pro for most of my needs. Other software is either FOSS or Free

MS Office and Windows are activated using MAS and m0nkrus (may he be blessed) provides my Adobe software.