Honestly, if you live in a country that has fucked you over economically and other countries fuck you over economically, where despite your best efforts it's a struggle just to live a basic life, why the fuck wouldn't you pirate stuff? There is a whole world of culture and experience and learning and entertainment that you shouldn't be cut out off from just cause of shitty circumstances.
Yeah, it's kinda like this.
At the same time, piracy culture is (was?) so strong in Brazil that even some of the richest people doesn't give a shit to get the legit stuff, even when they are on the cheap side. Sometimes they don't even know where they can obtain the original product, it's also a matter of awareness.
Like, the president (I think it was Lula, at the time) was spotted watching a pirated dvd movie on his airplane like 10/15 years ago.
My brother was playing pirated Counter Strike on a custom server like 3/4 years ago. He has a good job and enough money to get the original game, but simply didn't know Steam was a thing, since he's not super in touch with videogames and was used to pirate stuff. He got the game on Steam some time after it (Even bought the game for me as well, so i could play with him haha) simply because people was like "You know, this game is kinda cheap and playing online on Steam is a lot better and stuff". Nowadays he has a PS4 and bought a lot of games.
People here had to be atleast a little nerd about something to even consider the possibility of getting an original product, 10 years ago. Nowadays Netflix and Spotify reigns supreme, but most people will still torrent the new amazon prime series haha
