These days one can get a lot of books electronically. I am still not sure whether I prefer books in paper or electronic form. It seems that in principle I prefer electronic books, but the way that one can actually buy them is against my preferences. This is is the crucial distinction that will lead to a conclusion. ...
I prefer to do things in the legal way, and watching TV shows is no exception. It is different, however, in that here it actually is hard to impossible to do. ...
There is a trend with the license choice of new open source projects. Take for instance the LLVM compiler infrastructure. It has been started because GCC is licensed under the GPL and therefore companies cannot integrate parts of it into their commercial product. If they were to do so, the whole commercial product would have to be free software under the GPL as well. Companies do not want to open source their products. ...