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How is it fine for pirates to pay for a VPN to not pay for a service? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by BruceLee@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I only use free VPN extensions or apps and I fully aware of the limitation of this. I use shabby ones, which don't protect and probably sell my data. It slow and I can't have only a few location. But I can't get around the idea that people can pay for a service to refuse to pay to a service. Please help me understand.

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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

But I can't get around the idea that people can pay for a service to refuse to pay to a service.

I mean, if you assume that the only reason people are pirates is because they refuse to pay anyone for a service then I could see why you would have trouble with this point. But that isn't why most people pirate. Most people pirate because they don't want to pay the extortionate prices that media companies demand for their IP. Spending some small yearly fee to avoid paying several much large fees looks like a pretty solid reason for paying for a VPN service.