... I do respect the conditions imposed by any particular copyright holder. If somebody doesn't want me to look at their stuff, or makes it difficult for me to look at their stuff, I don't look at their stuff. Copyright itself isn't the part of the business model I find onerous and obsolete.
Why would I steal books I don't read, movies I'm never going to watch, or music I'm never going to listen too? Why would I steal anything I find annoying?
I might steal food from wealthier people if I was ever hungry enough but I've never been in that dire of a situation, and I've been in some fairly dire situations, with people either giving me food, or me finding food myself dumpster diving. (I had some pretty wild adventures as a young adult...)
Sometimes I shop at Target, but I rarely purchase books there. Most of the books I see there I wouldn't pick up if they were free. And I probably feel that way about 99.9% of the stuff in Target. I'll happily pay for the stuff I do want. Our Target has got the best price in town for soy milk. That's something I regularly buy there. Sometimes I'll buy DVDs there too. Maybe some of that DVD money makes its way to the actual artists, but it certainly satisfies the copyright owner. Target doesn't sell pirated DVDs.
My favorite form of literature is science fiction, especially short stories. I've got subscriptions to Analog, Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, etc., and that's not the only way I support this art.
I do my best to avoid supporting things I consider bullshit. I stream all my television without commercials. "Commercial Free" is something I pay extra for. Any tolerance I once had for television commercials evaporated a long time ago.
My wife and I don't have cable, satellite, or broadcast television. We actually spend more hours reading than we do watching television. In any case, if we stream a particular show on Netflix (for example), Netflix knows which shows we stream and presumably the artists are paid and the copyright holders satisfied, one way or another.
It's not like traditional television where part of my cable or satellite bill pays for content whether I watch it or not (for example, Fox News) and advertisers pay for the rest. I don't see television commercials at all in my ordinary daily life and haven't for more than a decade.
I choose not to support traditional television business models therefore I don't. For various reasons I don't want to support Apple or Microsoft either. I respect their copyrights by avoiding their software. My home computers run Linux and other free and open source software. The artists who create this software are much like my parents. Their paying jobs may be related to their art, in this case the art of writing software, but it's not the art itself paying the bills.
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