Software and hardware are both wares aka goods or services that are for sale. Merchants deal in wares. Pirates deal in warez.

ah yes. I use premiumize+torrentio.

Can I also be a party to the add-on you’re referencing?

Still better than leeches IMO

I’m not even sure what the point you’re trying to make is any more, but gaming on a laptop without a table is uncomfortable, which to me makes it less portable than the steam deck.

Other people are allowed to buy whatever they like.

I didn’t complain. And I don’t need to hoard anything that I’m not going to watch again.

I get all of what you’re describing with stremio/premiuimize. I watch 4K high bitrate HDR content flawlessly. All I do is open the app, select a stream and it plays.

I don’t have infinity storage space, and if the intention is to erase after watching then why not just stream on stremio?

I’m saying this as someone with 70TB usable storage in nas