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What does a post-piracy world look like? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I believe we're approaching the final 3-5 years of prevalent piracy for several reasons:

Software: The difficulty of cracking and modifying software has significantly increased.
Movies and TV Shows: Numerous streaming sites have been shut down or faced legal penalties.
Adult Content: New releases are often removed within 1-5 weeks, and many older titles are no longer available on piracy platforms.

Given these trends, what might a post-piracy world entail?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You do you, but any way you slice it Gimp is inferior to PS except for cost. My shipmates and I use piracy to level that field. I'm all for FOSS for privacy, security, diversity, competition, and niche applications that have minimal profit potential. I'm still going to use the best tools available to me though be they FOSS or otherwise. Smell you later land-lubber.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Sure, I have no issues with someone cracking adobe photoshop. In my case, I'm not going to be doing any serious photoshopping, so GIMP and KdenLive are suitable alternatives for me, a hobbyist, that wants the minimum effort required to use the tool every now and again.