Only Uber had an alternative, the rest you either didn't address or are incorrect
> the legal alternative to gay sex was heterosexual sex
Unless you're subscribing to a unscientific "people choose to be gay" philosophy, having sex with a gender you're not attracted to is not at all an alternative.
> the legal alternative to pirating games was to buy them
You mentioned surviving today, currently a lot of those games cannot be bought legally, which is what I meant with no alternative. Back then also a lot of people didn't pirate, and a lot of people who did did so because they had little money. I would count that situation as having no available alternative.
We were discussing a hypothetical chat application which currently are offered for free, so money is not an issue there.
> the legal alternative to gay sex was heterosexual sex
Unless you're subscribing to a unscientific "people choose to be gay" philosophy, having sex with a gender you're not attracted to is not at all an alternative.
> the legal alternative to pirating games was to buy them
You mentioned surviving today, currently a lot of those games cannot be bought legally, which is what I meant with no alternative. Back then also a lot of people didn't pirate, and a lot of people who did did so because they had little money. I would count that situation as having no available alternative.
We were discussing a hypothetical chat application which currently are offered for free, so money is not an issue there.