Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED!" video.

@ohnoitschris They didn't at first; streaming shows and movies is indeed more convenient than piracy on paper. While it's possible to stream content on torrent, it requires good seeds. However they've gotten stuck in their ways and started making the same stupid mistakes their predecessors did; making it difficult for paying customers to access the content they already paid for.
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@jmacd8817 Ahh but you didn't purchase the content in perpetuity, you bought a license to access the content according to their specific terms. I'm no lawyer, so I don't know how well this argument holds up in court (and I think our culture is ripe for a Supreme Court case to settle this nonsense once and for all), but even back in the physical days you never owned software or data. You bought a license to use that copy of the data.
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@itrytobeanonymoustoo5289 Piracy is very rarely "about" depriving profit from a business. There are very few pirates that download data illegally out of principle. The vast majority do it because the product or service is not available in their market or they can't pay for it. Or, as in this case, the service is more burdensome than piracy; as Gabe Newell once said. And he's right, I usually buy games on Steam because it is convenient. Piracy out of principle is a privilege for first-world people with an interest in software/data and a significant chunk of free time.
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