I once paid for a Plex share that initially was very convenient. Some free stream sites can be very slow and constant buffering. The plex share had high bandwidth connection and a huge library with content from basically all major streaming services at a great price so it was an easy buy. Plex started cracking down hard and it would disconnect way too often and require the guy setting it back up again which could take a half hour or a half a day so I ended up moving on.

I was paying for netflix until my kids could no longer watch from my house and my exwife's house. After that nonsense I just taught my kids how to find stuff for free.

I used to pirate all my games but now pay for all of it. I am trying to rack my head around why I stopped with games but having a hard time thinking of what made me change. For PC I just think it probably is risky running pirated software that may be malicious. For things like the switch well I have a older switch that can be fully modded but haven't due to not having the time to fully research all the ins and outs and not wanting my kids switch to be banned or something.