i pirate cause i stopped giving a shit
indies if i like their game still get bought tho
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I pirate because i have a digital hoarding issue
You're not making any corporation broke and your virtue signaling literally doesn't matter.
It's good to have ambitions though
Remember, every time you download an episode instead of streaming it you cause the corporations to lose MILLIONS (according to their words).
I pirate because I want to try it first. The days of rolling the dice on a 60 dollar game like on the NES are over.
Yo there's games that cost 80€ for me ($88.60). Even if I could afford that I would not pay that much. And remember that there are a bunch of games that basically don't drop in price at all.
Because I'm a third worlder and have no other way.
Seeders get leeches
I'm not sure what is with all the recent gatekeeping and glamourisation I am seeing around pirating, just seed your torrent and go bro.
I pirate because ads and cost. Not that I couldn't afford it, but accepting price increases for the same or reduced quality of service encourages enshittification. Ads are unacceptable, period.
Give me Steam level quality and you'll receive my money. That includes offline capabilities, family sharing, uncompromised content quality, and no taking back purchased items. In short, make me trust your platform. And I will never pay for subscriptions. Netflix was close, but alas.
The best time to start was 20 years ago (again, Netflix). Second best is now.
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i wish it would.
i would be pirating even shit i dont want.
No, you don't. That's the point of piracy. Corporations extract every bit of wealth from the consumer class to the point that they don't even notice piracy, other than to decry it as a great evil. Nobody is going out of business.
When it comes to corporations, steal everything.
I’ve always wondered - what qualification do we use to decide when a “business” (run by a kind guy behind a counter he built himself from scrap wood) evolves into a “corporation” (evil and scheming, part of the global capitalist conspiracy)?
Like, if the guy who runs my local coffee shop opens a second cafe further down the street, should I start tapping his phone to find out how the YouTube Content ID system works, now that he’s a part of The Corporations? Should I start breaking into his cafe and start stealing scones? Or do we want to wait until he has a third location
Probably a third location, just to be safe.
When profit becomes the first priority (i.e. when personal passion becomes second place)
What if my local coffee shop owner admits that he sought profit right from the beginning? And, so happened to aim for that by building a loyal customer base?
Free game for throwing rocks and stealing espresso brewers?
Or, maybe it’s worth establishing a system of nuance where you actually pay attention to the individual acts of particular companies, rather than grouping all businesses as “Corporations”?
Some people just hate on any business regardless of their size or practices because "cAPitALism suX"
At least you've alluded to the fact that you're in fact stealing when pirating
Yeah, I wrote that poorly. I'm going to leave it as a warning to future generations.
I could navigate 8 different streaming services with unique catalogs and awful UIs just to find that my show isn’t available in Canada—not with a clear notification, but by empty search results where it’s supposed to be.
Or I could run a docker container that automatically searches everywhere for me and puts shows in my library minutes after their release.
For my uses it would be more convenient to pirate shows on the services I still pay for.
This is definitely some "I'm a 14 year-old edge lord" content right here
That was partly the intention lol
I pirate because I know I won't have it eventually if I don't. Where I can, I donate directly to the creator instead of the worthless middlemen that are going to disappear next year and take my purchase with them.
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