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.
True. Enough movies have been made, enough books written. There’s no need for more. Stop creating stuff, everyone — unless you really need to, in which case you might be an artist or a writer.
I guess there will always be a place for new media and new books, but I think the problem is not that no more are ever needed. It’s more about how to choose.
I’d like a store like steam, but where they limit their selection to maybe a selection of 100 highly curated games. And change that selection from time to time.
A bit like when you go to the library, they have already done the effort of choosing what books will be on display from the vast collection of books that exist in the world.