Does nobody realise this?

You know, companies who stay on top of things technology-wise, that by creating bigger and bigger means of data storage, you are encouraging software piracy.
I can get 500GB of stable, shiny storage for 50 British pounds. And I do, I get that shit because damn, that's some cheap space.
And I revel in the novelty. I spend a while backing up all of my files onto it, I'll maybe plug it into my flat screen and watch these few movies I've acquired digitally over the course of time. Besides, the quality's not bad nowadays, considering it's free.
But then you're left with an insane amount of space on your lovely new external hard drive. So you torrent some more.
You torrent for weeks but the spare GB's are having none of it, you don't think you can find enough time to watch all of the shit you set off downloading before you go to sleep. What do you pay for your internet for? To let your potential available bandwidth slip away as you rest? Might as well use it, you'll always enjoy the treat in the morning.
You start believing, at this point, that the hard drive is now there TO BE F1LLED and you must spend as much of your spare time that's actually spare trying to accomplish this.
It is then that you realise you have a lot of information that is not backed up.
And you go out and buy another hard drive.

hey dude i didnt notice this
but then again i am the same person so i would say that

hardware companies love piracy if it means you buy more hdds

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What the fuck, OP?

Every argument against piracy is flawed. Just give up.

>>1
Well, the exponential increase in hard drive space has always been pretty constant, and piracy on PCs is as old as proprietary software, and as long as the movie industry existed. True, it hasn't been to the point where the volume is today, but it's really nothing new fundamentally when you consider the whole thing in historical terms.

>>3
Well, I guess it does help propagate the market more for hard drives, though people have always wanted drives with more storage space.

>>6
I don't think OP was arguing against piracy; merely stating how most people who fill large hard drives use their PCs.