ugh this.

I've only recently started making enough money that I could reasonably actually afford to legally acquire all the media I am interested in consuming. However, how can I want to when, as you said, it will just be used to beat me in the face tomorrow.

I'm not pretending that I'm a good enough person to stop consuming mpaa/riaa products entirely, legally or otherwise, but it does certainly take the shine off hunting down the latest episode of leverage/burn notice/suits/whatever.