If you want to watch HBO shows and would rather “download” them than subscribe, here are some convenient justifications to help you sleep a little better.
- Have to own a TV/pay for premium cable TV to get HBO, which is ridiculous.
- Have to have a cable box, an evil satan device that is forbidden in my home.
- Information wants to be free
- Culture belongs to all of us
- HBO is owned by Time Warner, an evil, already profitable company that doesn’t need or deserve more money, and if you give them more money they will just spend it lobbying to make our country less free.
- Downloading is not the same as stealing. It’s not as if the show ceases to exist if you download it.
- You were never going to pay for the show anyway - they were never going to get your money. So it’s more a matter of watch vs not watch. Might as well watch.
