I don't follow laws that are passed by corporations with deep pockets of money to pay off Congressman and the like. I do this in protest. that's the reason I download most music (illegally) and am rather doing this in protest, mainly as the RIAA/MPAA just pocket all the money, with a few table scraps to the artist. However, I will try to go and spend money on merchandise if the Band is in town. As far as movies, I don't want to encourage bad movies making obscene amounts of money. I download it, if I like it (and watch the whole thing) and decide it's worth the money, I will go pay for it. that's how I accumulate most of my movies. But if I get 1/3rd to 1/2 the way through it and find it atrocious, I just delete it and don't even keep it. I want to preview stuff and not spend money on absolute junk. I have found good movies that way, but I won't think twice about downloading and if finding it's so god-awful bad, I just delete it.
With the trash the movie studios put out on film, I don't want to encourage the idea of dumb humor and senseless violence of "Fan Service" when it's not needed. Therefore, I don't buy much. but if I deem that the movie is a masterpiece, I will go out and buy it and probably memorabilia that goes with it.
I don't want to encourage bad decisions, nor MPAA/RIAA for paying someone to make the laws. So I choose to ignore any law that corporations set. I am not going to live my life by who has more money to bribe someone