memes

How does pirating make a corporation broke? Making a copy doesn't steal money.

Edit: We can't pirate a company into bankruptcy.

This is definitely some "I'm a 14 year-old edge lord" content right here

I pirate because it's too much hassle otherwise.

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.

Oh how I wish it worked like that.

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.

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.

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 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.

i wish it would.

i would be pirating even shit i dont want.

I pirate because i have a digital hoarding issue

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.

I used to pirate because when I started gaming, I was poor.

I could afford a game or two, but I was smart enough to know getting a modded ps2 would mean that my money would go much much further and thereby maximize my gaming experience. My gaming budget was the same, but I wanted my money to go to hardware.

Now I’m an adult, work as a software dev and the price isn’t a problem. But now I pirate because as a dev I know, all the hard workers are paid salary/hourly before the game releases, and if it’s a AAA game, all the money goes to investors.

Solution? Being a patient gamer and paying for indie games here and there :D

Because I'm a third worlder and have no other way.

gang

What about OpenAI?

Seeders get leeches

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.