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And if no one pays for any of that content there will be zero ways to stay informed!

Information has existed long before the invention of money, and will outlive it.
IMO it is a false dichotomy to equate piracy with theft like that.

I think 90-99% of anything pirated (or accessed by bypassing paywalls etc) would just never be bought/paid-for if there was no alternative.

Are there no ads on the site?

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