As someone who’s strongly against the piracy of digital media, I often bring it up in conversation with others. A common thing people tell themselves to feel better about their piracy habits is, “I pay for the Internet bandwidth that downloads that movie, hence technically I’m paying money for it.” Well seeing as though none of the dollars you pay your ISP is distributed back to content creators, that argument is as dumb as saying, “I pay for the petrol to get to the movies, hence actually watching the film shouldn’t cost me another cent.” No one would argue the latter and yet it’s essentially the same logic as the former. Think about that for a moment. And the next time you want to enjoy digital content without paying for it, remember that you’re depriving someone else of income… how would you like it if people devalued your work?