…and then there’s those times where nintendo sold pirated copies of their own games bundled with an emulator

That last one is more common than I’d like, a lot more

I’m not, I want to relax. Debugging is a different hobby

Nah, I like playing games

I don’t think someone else’s death is ever a good thing to hope for

• A family member might have searched it
• An ad network might have reported on your piracy (especially now with privacy sandbox)
• Your media player might just be doing some tracking and/or insecure searching for metadata
• Siri or something might have popped open
• You googled to get to the piracy website
• You may have just looked up the movie, and the movie was popular with pirates

Don’t get too paranoid

Why do people still take these seriously? It’s ridiculous