I just want to point out that I'm not one of those assholes who feel entitled to media through torrents. I bought Stoner for the introduction that wasn't in the ePub I torrented. I like physical media. I like having a a handsome bookshelf and DVD collection. I'm also poor so I buy a lot of stuff from Goodwill and no one but Goodwill benefits from that. You're not accusing me of being an entitled cunt who's excusing stealing but I'm in the parking lot of the grocery store and it's pouring so I'm typing this on my phone while waiting for the rain to let up. And those kids who want to rationalize stealing generally piss me off. Alright I'm about to get wet.
Yeah, I like to buy fire when I can. Except Kindle Fire. To reframe the argument, sometimes I buy fire that burns me. I don't like spending money to get burned. I'd rather learn upfront with no investment which fire warms me, then pay the person who ignited that fire out of gratitude. That's what I try to do.
The anime that I can't get to behave in Plex? I stole the shit out of it. And will continue to do so. So long as the industry fails to provide me with a reasonable way to consume media, I will consume it unreasonably. That's my larger point - Amazon "works" on a kindle standpoint because they've got a seamless ecosystem. On movies? Total shitshow. Music? Total, total shitshow. Neither shitshow compares to my Patlabor adventures, however, or the fact that I needed to download subtitles for Genesis Climber Mospeada from Russia because in the US it's just Series III of Robotech. And yeah - I rented that shit on Netflix back when discs made sense... but fuckin' Apple managed to disable my DVD player with Yosemite so really, a plague on both their houses. I totally feel entitled to media through torrents, and I make a substantial living generating media. Why? because if you can't figure out a reasonable way to sell it to me, I'm going to steal it. That's basic fucking economics.