That and of course my friend Baxter here.
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Steal. To take another person's property without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
Take. To remove someone or something from a particular place.
I’m not taking anything, I’m merely creating a copy of it. I would 100% download a car if that meant cloning someone’s car for free and without damaging the original one.
This doesn't get said enough. Piracy is only damaging if I would have paid to get the thing in the first place. If I'm pirating something that I would have avoided entirely had I needed to pay, literally no one is taking any losses.
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Bad news: piracy isn’t theft if buying isn’t owning
Thinking of all the shit I buy from the money I did not spent, because I chose to sail the 7 seas instead.
I'm just poor.
Facts, I love stealing, I love taking things
It's not theft though, never was. Wasn't even a crime until a few years ago.
Believe it or not, but piracy with principles is much more fun
I pirate because I was taught to pirate from a young age. My dad brought home a copy of DOOM from his friend, my aunt rented VHS's from Blockbuster and copied TF out of them and let friends borrow them. Every Windows OS I've installed we've reused CD keys. And now, I download movies/tv shows for my kids to watch so they aren't inundated with ads. But...I buy the things that are worth it. I've bought my kids all the Five-Nights games because they enjoyed them. My steam library is FILLED with humble-bundles from Indy artists and games that were lovingly made by their creators like BG3, Enshrouded, Nightingale, etc. But I also have a Nintendo switch that's cracked WIIIIDE open because fuck Nintendo. Also fuck Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Activision (RIP Blizzard), Apple, and I'm sure I'll come up with more later. Oh yeah, and FUCK NESTLE.
FUCK NESTLE.
I don't know how to download chocolate but once I figure it out...
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I used to NOT advocate for piracy. I still pirated shit because I did not want to pay but I never suggested that it was the right thing to do. But the way that these corporations try to fuck their customers more and more I feel like paying for something is basically tipping a billionaire. Their pockets are bottomless and they will figure out a hundred different ways to make sure they don't pay taxes on those billions while the rest of us have to pay a third of our hard earned cash in taxes. Piracy is not only OK, I think it is warranted at this point.
EXACTLY
You block ads because of privacy.
I block ads to cause the greatest amount of financial damage, purely out of spite.
We are not the same.
I also block ads because I want a clean page, plus the economical damage.
Yeah that’s my whole thing with ads, I understand monetization is necessary but it’s gotten so far out of fucking hand
I agree. Small, non-intrusive banner ads with an easy close button are fine. They get the message across without getting in anyone's way.
The problem is the ads that stop you from doing anything for the best part of a minute. I don't see how anyone has ever been convinced to buy whatever product is being advertised by these, but somehow, they're the ones that are everywhere.
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Ethical theft should be the norm
its very cool and funny to do crimes, actually
Copyright infringement isn't a crime though, only commercial copyright infringement is.
I don’t know why some people sugar coat it.
I’d pirate anyway because I don’t wanna spend money, and so would a lot of people who instead choose to hide behind excuses.
It also depends on who's behind the product. Good indie game with one or a few developers - never. Adobe - I consider it a moral obligation.
I have seen these big long winded speeches about how immoral it is to sell copyrighted material and how some dumb shit like spiderman should fall under the 'free sharing of ideas to better humanity' and blah blah blah.
Bro. We are thieves. We are stealing because its easy and the products cost too much.