As I said in original post, price is not the problem. Although laziness and not so high ethics is :)
Thanks for the links.
Offtopic: we had the same situation in 90s. Getting better now, but most people still pirate software. Photoshop costs more than average monthly salary. Before taxes. Do I need to say more? :)
That's not quite what you wrote in the original post, you were trying to suggest that you had no legitimate option and piracy was "the only way to access information".
Whereas the truth is simply that the legitimate options took more effort to find & execute than piracy did. Which is universally true, even often for those who live in the US (the gap is just narrower there.)
Thanks for the links.
Offtopic: we had the same situation in 90s. Getting better now, but most people still pirate software. Photoshop costs more than average monthly salary. Before taxes. Do I need to say more? :)