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Be like Enegue. Use your disproportionate buying power as a first worlder to purchase and rip media to upload for those locked out of it by the dominant systems. Buy the highest speed, uncapped internet and seed all those torrents. If you don't have a 200:1 up/download ratio and you live in the first world then shame upon you, son of Eugene.
Also on a serious note, I was ignorant for a long time of the huge disparity in buying power of US citizens vs even Eastern European and it gets worse from there. For example, taking into consideration wages and taxes, buying a game for $60 (or €60-70 I suppose) in a non-EU but bordering the EU Eastern European country is like... out of my ass mental conversion, like an American spending like... $150? Honestly might be even more, I'd have to go check some current prices. That's why these countries and like Turkey, Arab countries, Russia, etc. all have high piracy rates and it's just seen as normal there because no one can justify buying media at the same price to US/EU buyers without consideration for local economies. (Some efforts have been made in the last decade or so to even out the disparity but it still exists. Also hardware suffers the same disparity)
Not beliving those snakes is necessity. In Poland we had tons of piracy, but the legal games market was improving - pretty low prices, many fully dubbed games, etc. Then the piracy declined rapidly because of that and general trend, and now we have literally higher prices than in USA and barely any Polish versions (and no dubbing anymore, just text in the case there is polish version).
Same thing here, publishers use the same blanket pricing for all the EU although the average wage in Italy is half the average wage in Germany or in France, when piracy was rampant a decade and a half ago we had most games (at least the AAA ones) fully dubbed and localized, low prices and everything. Now we have the same €60 price that Germany has although due to an average wage of around 25k vs 50k you're effectively paying an AAA game 120€
plus 90% of the games don't get dubbed and like 30% aren't even subtitled (speaking of big games, not games from indipendent publishers who may not afford to do so)
I, for one, only buy good games (and in these times the good games are usually from indipendent/small devs) expecially when they have tons of mods (modding a pirated game is tedious) everything else? 🏴☠️
Also I believe it is a moral duty to pirate textbooks, research papers, courses and news articles. Knowledge should be free 😁