As long as piracy is easier than obtaining something legally, I'll continue to do it. I stopped pirating music, because Spotify is much much nicer to use and gives a better experience overall. I stopped pirating games since steam is nice. I almost stopped pirating movies when Netflix came out. Only pirated some extremely niche stuff. But now I'm back in the high seas, baby!
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I think I'll be pirating until the economy gets better. And I don't mean wall street, I mean when the average person get paid enough to have extra money for entertainment stuff. Aint nobody gonna pay for a netflix subscription every month or $70 for a game that could still have bugs, people got food to buy, bills to pay.
You want less piracy? Simple. Just give people a higher quality of life.
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I only pirate movies and shows because I refuse to pay for 10 different streaming services, all of them want 8-15 euros/month. I pay for Spotify, I pay for Youtube Premium, I pay for Steam and GOG games, I pay for Gamepass... but video? Fuck that
Yeah, Spotify makes music piracy kinda pointless. Soulseek was cool at one point, but then everybody just made everything private. Nowadays if it's not on Spotify, it's an artist actually making money from sales and they should be supported.
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I'm with Gabe Newell on this one. High piracy rates indicate a service problem.
I can't find very good data on this, but my suspicion is that PC piracy rates are lower than they were a decade ago. I'm betting piracy of movies and TV shows is far, far higher than it was a decade ago. It's pretty easy to see why. If you want a PC game, you can usually (EGS timed exclusives aside) buy it from your digital storefront of choice, or add it to your wishlist and wait for a sale. Once it's in your library it's effectively there to stay. Game doesn't work on your PC, or you don't enjoy it like you thought you would? No problem, you can refund it. Now compare that movies and TV shows. An ever-expanding range of streaming services that all want $15 a month from you, region locking, staggered release dates. Nothing new you want to watch this month? Too bad, your $15 is now our $15 dollars, and we'll take $15 from you next month too. Movie and TV show piracy provides a more valuable and convenient service, so it wins hands down.
Steam is just better than piracy. With video they made piracy the attractive option again.
I feel fine paying $15 for a game because I could spend hundreds of hours on it and it might have more replayability and allow me to play with friends and family and online. Paying $15 for a month worth of shitty content that is region locked and doesn't think I'm the rightful account holder leabes a bad taste in my mouth.
If I had to put those 15/month somewhere, it's Gamepass
And it always works, unskippable ads for other new releases never pop up, and it doesn’t just disappear when another platform gets the syndication rights for the next quarter.
Personal rule has always been I don’t give a fuck about major corps profits.
However, if I pirate a game I like, I pay for it. Simple as. Support devs, especially indie.
Same way I do it. If I enjoy Stray or Winrar enough or long enough, I always[1] buy. Even bought a Sylenth1.
[1] Fuck yearly repackaged sports games, Adobe etc.
Lol fuck winrar. 7z is better, free and open source.
I agree 100% 7zip is the shit. Just the old "buy Winrar" joke, ya know?
Theres like a RarReg Key floating around in the internet which activates WinRar forever.
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With demos making a comeback I see pirating of games becoming even less of a 'problem'.
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I bought Terraria and Geometry Dash just to support the devs. Also some Valve games as a reward to them for pouring so much effort into the Linux ecosystem and contributing all their improvements back to it.
Louis rossmann has been pirating board schematics since before he did board repair in a basement, since apple likes to make them so inaccessible. On some of his streams you can even see the watermark of the site he pirated them from on it xD
I'm surprised he hasn't been imprisoned for copyright infringement. Using pirated schematics for a repair bussiness surely would've triggered law enforcement to shut him down, wouldn't it? Or is this somehow bypasses DMCA because of the first amendment? I don't know how laws work as I'm not a lawyer
I'm not 100% up on USA law, but wouldn't this just be a civil matter?
Yes.
Rossmann is becoming more based by the day.
I love this new direction his channel is taking. I watch every minute of it at the moment, can't get enough lol
He's doingthe right thing. Whatever he uploads - he justifies it. And I usually agree with him.
Rossman has never not been based
Sometimes I find him a bit over the top, but yes, he is always based asf.
He's one of those people who have a hard time recognizing the line between "being honest" and "being rude". That's not a disqualification though, we all have our quirks.
I'm okay with him being over the top. If he didn't always put his money where his mouth his, I might feel a bit different but these are issues he's put his entire life and a ton of his income into. He's very much earned his right to be an angry New Yorker in his videos
It always is.
I don't think it's OK but I don't care about corporate interests.
Rossmann is based af
I think more along the lines of "copyright isn't ok" rather than whether or not actions that happen outside of it are or are not.
I've discovered his channel this year, and he seems really based. Many great takes on the tech industry and its relationship with society
Based
He also continues to stick the boot into Spez and Reddit to this day.
Why is this news, 99,9% of society says piracy is ok? Has anybody in your life ever reproved you for saying you downloaded a movie, game etc?
Some people say piracy is theft and I'm just like: 🙄
Have you ever been a Minecraft server admin? Have you ever been in a Nintendo fan space? These places really hate pirates
I mean I was a Nintendo fanboy when I was young. I have a switch now and owned N64, GC, Wii. Me and my RL friends lamented not being able to pirate. Sure there are people online that are anti piracy but I think they are actually a vocal minority.
Them and people profiting from copyright are the remaining percentage.
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here's the link on oddysee: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/why-i-will-never-pay-for-youtube-premium:b
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"Video games are art and everyone everywere should have access to art" - A guy on youtube on the topic if piracy is bad
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