Which seas do you avoid?
So there is a thing I kind of pirate, but not entirely – e-books.
But thing is, our public library page has e-books and some of them are available to be read online. Now I cannot officially download them, however opening a network tab on browser console shows me a request to download the whole
.epubfile. So what I do is copy that request ascurland just download it via terminal.Is it piracy, probably, is this resource publicly available for me to read, definetly yes.
Other than that I don’t really pirate much else.
Video games, because it’s easier to do it legally. If it was as easy for other media, I would do it that way.
Nothing.
Software. 99% of the time there is some Free Software alternative that either somehow does the job for my personal tasks, or is better anyways.
FOSS for the win 😁
Or you have to run a shady crack or keygen to get it to work, and I don’t trust those.
But …their catchy 8bit music!
I can hear KMSpico in my head already…
monkrus FTW
* cries in Adobe *
PC games, just don’t feel like making arbitrary code execution a cakewalk for internet strangers
Software and video games. I just haven’t had a need, and I like supporting creators. Only reason I’d download books, music or movies is because I absolutely abhor subscription payments and would rather have access to those things permanently. At least with software you can just find a free alternative.
Apps. I prefer foss apps. I donate, report, contribute and spread the word.
Even if I would pirate an app it wouldn’t become open source. I couldn’t contribute. I couldn’t report bugs, suggest ideas, fork and apply my own stuff.
I only pirate apps with no alternatives and very aggressive monetization like 100€/year subscriptions…
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We’ve had a no piracy rule over in the Android subs/communities for years and the funny thing is, by time we ever got to someone trying to post a pirated APK the community themselves tore them a new arsehole.
Easiest rule to enforce when the community will absolutely hiss at you. Love em.
edit: a fun talking point I suppose is YouTube, and its app. We got a lot of people arguing that Newpipe ‘was piracy’ and I even had many debates with other members/mods about is it, or isn’t it piracy?
My view it’s a website that you can parse even with other tools like yt-dl, and if Youtube.com wanted to stop use of Newpipe / Revanced whatever they could in the blink of an eye.
I had to ‘pirate’ geometry dash apk as only the lite version was on the play store. I’d already payed for the full version on Steam and iOS.
I kinda pirated Spotify (xmanager). I believe Tidal is one I would actually subscribe too if I had the income.
Pretty much anything that I can buy easily without going to second-hand or stupid subscriptions. For me, it’s really a service problem, not a cost problem.
Usually music made by artists from my country, if they have a website where I can pay for their music directly to them I do it that way.
🙌🏻 I buy CDs and newer unseal them, but pirate the songs because it’s more convenient.
Sometimes I rip CDs to replace music I’ve already pirated just for the feeling of having music I ripped myself.
Makes no sense, I know, but music is just for the feeling after all.I prefer high res over CD quality 😇 but I think I can relate.
I mean, I can put up with far worse quality.
In some cases I have to. For example I have some classical songs ripped from YouTube that sound absolutely horrible, but I am kinda accustomed to those specific performances, and it’s not always possible to find a better recording from one specific performance. And the other ones just sound… off. Sometimes this is also the case with remasters.
The worst one I have is a song from Beatles I am keeping both because it’s one of the first files I downloaded when I was 8 and however weird it sounds, I got used to the compression artifacts. It’s 32kbps HE-AAC at 22.05kHz sample rate. I don’t even know its name. The name and metadata is in Chinese.
Only the content that i don’t care about.
It’s not that I won’t but I do try to go out of my way to support smaller artists I enjoy, especially nowadays.
Lucky it’s gotten a lot easier with sites like Bandcamp, but it’s better if I can buy directly from the bands own store.
Sad news about band camp from last year though.
I’m sadly aware…which is another reason why I try go straight to the band/artist first.
Music and software/games. Both are convenient and relatively affordable to access. Software I will try to find non-subscription based or open source options if available.
Windows antiviruses. It’s not wise to use a cracked program that’s supposed to protect you from malicious cracks/downloads…
Not so much refuse, but I don’t currently pirate games or music. The systems available to me are too convenient for me to waste time fucking around with piracy.
Same, Spotify and steam are too convenient for me. Everything else though…
I am in the opposite boat. I’ve been downloading individual songs I like since the age of 8 when I bought myself the cheapest Android tablet (€50).
I won’t be spending my time to move to some online service.And getting the music on other devices?
I can either play it through my laptop from phone using Bluetooth thanks to pulseaudio-bluetooth, and control the playback via KDE connect which can run over BT-PAN connection to save power, and is also more resilient to noise than Wi-Fi thanks to FHSS.
Alternatively, I can use LAN. All my music is on my phone (and a backup HDD + encrypted on cloud) and run a Navidrome server on my phone in Termux. This also goes for video which I serve from my phone using nginx with fancyindex module to make it nicer. Since I already have that, nginx acts as a reverse proxy to Navidrome. My music is sorted by folders, so to keep things simple I create m3u playlists that get autoimported to Navidrome. That part is pretty simplels playlist-dir/* > playlist.m3u.OK, perhaps the second part doesn’t sound that convenient, but first part needs no setup with most distros. Perhaps installing KDE connect for music control (and more), but that is optional. Actually, the music control can be done just via Bluetooth, but I wasn’t able to utilize my laptop’s media buttons for that, and I don’t want to have to mouse over to Bluetooth panel.
How do you handle discovering new music? That’s a big sticking point for me
I also listen to radio.
But I don’t even have to as I travel by a bus. The bus drivers almost always listen to some music, whether on radio or from their own playlists.
Since I usually sit in the front, it’s often good enough to remember the lyrics or even use Shazam.So yeah, radio and bus drivers. :)
I wouldn’t download a car.
