On the open meadows of the freeinternet,
where the gentle breeze touches all equally,
where the people are friends,
and the money is spent on FOSS devs & smol gaming studios.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
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If you can't proudly say your pirating sure you need to find a new friend group
Well they said "co-worker", I can understand not divulging that in a workplace.
I've never worked an office job that wasn't pirating software openly and somewhat proudly when pointed out
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I borrowed it from an acquaintance on Internet :D
Fell off this passing truck that was carrying shows and movies!
I just honestly answer that I don't know.
it's on ploob
It used to be on ploob, but season 3 is only on nimbo now.
“Channel BitTorrent” is my reply
Just send them to JustWatch.
Hi-C's
"Dodgy Firestick"
Jellyfin!
"Oh, I download it from well known and respected torrent sites. All the services I might use are crap."
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Depends on how cool they are
Right, exactly. The alternative to this meme is offering them access to my Plex server.
Me: The internet ;) ;)
Just give them a usb of the show for Christ's sake! Sneaker net that shit. Which show btw?
I did this for a coworker not too long ago.
I think it was for Firefly....
They gave the USB drive back too. Win-win
Welcome to Wrexham.
Not the kind of guy who'd watch something from a USB. Technically not a co-worker but a former co-worker, because he retired a couple of years ago.
Isn’t that too risky though? That can be an evidence when argued in the court
Or from the other side, taking a random ass USB stick from someone you barely know? Nah. Who the hell knows what it could be infested with.
If your coworkers are the level of douche bag that they might take you to court, then probably don't even talk about your favorite show with them
It’s not necessarily deliberate. Your coworkers could be distributing the copy to someone else and police’s gonna find out where it comes from
I almost envy the place where this is the kind of shit police are able to worry about.
I don’t know where you’re from but in my country, police are cyber-patrolling (lol) to hunt down ~~il~~legal contents.
Edit: I remember it’s a piracy community
I would think that cyber ops would be more concerned with fraud, underage sexual content, sexual predators... That kind of stuff.
Usually the MPAA sues people for distributing video content, and in many places, they're not super aggressive about it.
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A lot of risk narcing on someone irl
I tried that once. They never watched the show and didn't give back the USB. 🙁
USBs nowadays are a dime a dozen basically for 16GB sticks
They can literally be bought in 10 packs for less than $30.
If they don't give one back nowadays so be it.
Back in the day it was a terrible loss though
I wonder if you applied inflation from the time that idiom was first popularized what the modern price would be.
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I stopped bothering with sticks the moment you could get 1TB SSDs for less than 100 bucks. They are hardly larger than a stick at this point, and with USB-C 3.2 also pretty damn fast.
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"yeah the service is called piracy and you should use a VPN"
Seriously, my coworkers pirat more stuff than i do... Some even for work...
That's what shocked me at work. I've been pirating since limewire and then comes this 40-something Y/O mom, not even nerdy or computer savvy or something, and gives a performance like she's already found the OnePirce and wanted to be the next Anne Bonny.
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