Hear hear!!
I typically eschew piracy, in favor of making sure the creators of the content I consume are fairly compensated.
I remember when the iTunes music store 1st swelled to the point where it would take longer to fire up Napster or whatever & find some track, hoping it was encoded properly and didn’t cut off at some random point near the end of the song, than to just d/l it from Apple & be done with it!
It was the quite reasonable 99¢ price tag that sealed the deal.
Now that there are so many ways to stream or own high quality digital movies, similarly... I can’t see the appeal in bothering to torrent them.
However (quite sadly), comic books is one area where I’d prefer to pay for digital copies of the comics I read, but few are available from the publisher, and I end up d/l them elsewhere. The CBR scene is vibrant enough & the MCU/DCU franchises have shined enough light on this fabulous medium, that there’s ample opportunity to make ridiculous sums of money providing legit CBR copies of all titles, every Wednesday.
Or an “all you can eat” service.
When I was still buying physical copies, my tab was around $120/mo.
(that’s like 10-12 titles/week)
Obviously, reading them, sans owning something that has the potential of increasing in value, can’t command the same price, but at 99¢ per comic... they’d likely get $40+ out of me per month- making any “all access” service that price or less, look attractive.
