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.
Its not a piracy problem its a hoarding problem. You probably do this with other stuff in your life as well.
I don’t really hoard or own much personally. Even digitally I don’t keep that much stuff. It’s more about how easily everything is available to download. Sometimes I don’t bother going to the library because I can just find it online.
I do find it difficult to get rid of things that I no longer need. But that’s mostly because I find it difficult to find people to sell things to. In my country, they mostly use Facebook Marketplace, but I’m not on Facebook.