There absolutely is a thing called a free lunch. In fact their is an album named after it "fat of the land"

I pirate all the time even though I do try and buy the legal options first. When in a lot of cases. Kodi with a couple add-ons take care of the rest. I bought a physical copy of some book but the company drm servers are no longer maintained I'm out of luck. Pirated copies to the rescue. There is an entire generation that was raised to not give a shit about copyright.

I've probably committed five felonies today yet paid once because I'd prefer to do that.

So why bother paying any attention to copyright law? There are zero repercussions.