Some piracy-related thoughts

Act 1:
One of those parties, where the laptop is connected to YouTube and guests are free to play whatever music they feel like listening to. So, at a certain point, we realized that the spontaneous playlist had become pretty nice and decided to save it with a succession of back-copy-paste. When we tried playing the same playlist again a few months later, several videos had been taken down due to copyright infringement.

(While I love Spotify, it doesn't have an agreement with Japan yet, and thus doesn't include the Jpop we were trying to listen to.)

Act 2:
Once I was talking with my dad and the beginning to one of his stories was: "When I was a kid, around 10-12 years old, a single with two songs inside had the price of a cheap bread snack, so we'd go out and buy whatever song we seemed to like". This phrase alone was much more interesting than what he was actually trying to say.

Act 3:
I'm not a gamer overall, but I recently decided to try Portal, just for the sake of it. I created a Steam account and bought it without thinking twice, even though it was already on my brother's computer anyway, because a) it was easily accessible to find and download, b) it would stay on my account even if I wanted to play it on another computer, c) it's online so there's no risk of destroying the physical medium, d) it was really cheap after having been out for several years.