• Jerkface (any/all)
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    24 months ago

    Bandcamp was acquired by Epic, but they still offer DRM-free downloads of all your music, give artists good cuts, and if you buy on Bandcamp Friday, the best cut any artist could hope for. I’d rather there was a distributed solution without a corporation taking a cut off the top, but it’s still getting you pretty close to the artist.

    • AnyOldName3
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      34 months ago

      xkcd comics are available under a CC-By-NC 2.5 licence, so you’ve successfully pirated by not including attribution (as long as people can’t tell at a glance that it’s xkcd from the art style or comment thread you posted it to), but to seal the deal, it’d be a crime to sell it.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 months ago

        I couldn’t tell at glance this was from xkcd and am willing to testify to a jury, when’s the court date?

          • Venia Silente
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            34 months ago

            Whaaaat? This has to go through reporting to count?

            Maaaan, pirating things is so complex these days. I long for the days of napster and emule. </s>

  • balderdash
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    4 months ago

    Feel like it’s too arduous to pirate music these days

    edit: Thank you guys for all the suggestions

    • LostXOR
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      04 months ago

      I just rip my songs from Spotify. It’s not the highest quality, but it’s easy to find stuff and I wrote a little script to quickly download lists of tracks and albums so it’s pretty convenient.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      Arduous?! Why you little…

      In the AOL days, I got on newsgroups and hunted songs. Good luck finding what you wanted. Then I’d download 6-12 pieces and use software to tack those pieces into a single MP3. At 56K. (Really 53K, at best, and that was with tweaking modem strings and whatnot.)

      I repeat: Why you little…

    • Venia Silente
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      54 months ago

      Technically you can: if you distribute the comic but don’t give the attribution, you are breaking the terms of the license which is just about the closest thing to “pirating” it that you can do.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 months ago

        But “breach of license” is so much more lame than “piracy!”*

        *Yes, a lot of piracy is itself breach of license, hush

  • @[email protected]
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    54 months ago

    There are probably some teenagers pirating stuff right now who weren’t even alive when this comic was drawn. I’m old.

  • @[email protected]
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    04 months ago

    I have to download pirated video games otherwise I can’t play them offline on my handheld. They also launch 10x faster. I learnt that you can’t use everything you own a copy of offline!

    • @[email protected]
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      I use a mix of Goldberg emulator and GOG i prefer Steam though. Mostly for valves Proton compatibility layer and all that valve does for linux gaming. So if a game is drm free on steam i get it there.

      Fuck denuvo tho that shit needs to die in a fire.

  • @[email protected]
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    24 months ago

    I saw someone on YouTube pissed that they bought 700 ebooks from Amazon and now that they enforce a harder DRM he can’t read them anymore.

    Bruh, you voted with your wallet to get DRM in your ebooks. You can’t complain if one day they change the encryption

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      The vast majority of the public hsve no idea what you just said.

      Their brain goes “I like book. I buy book! No more book? But I buy book!”

      • @[email protected]
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        04 months ago

        I agree, but I also sort of think that’s fair enough. The fact that most people “buying” ebooks don’t understand what their transaction implies suggests a major market failing.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      I fully believe that if you paid for something, it gives you the right to go pirate another copy.

  • @[email protected]
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    54 months ago

    Now that the US is run by literal criminals, any moral objection to something here on the grounds that it’s illegal has no weight whatsoever.

  • @[email protected]
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    14 months ago

    Support creators though. Especially if the thing you pirate isn’t from a soulless corporation. This is why creators should always have something like a ko-fi or Patreon page. So I can pay them directly if I enjoyed their work.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      I buy a ton of XKCD merch for this very purpose. I support others on Patreon, by buying from their advertisers and by buying their audiobooks on Libro.fm or a physical copy.

      Amazon and other middlemen add nothing, they simply take a cut off the top. They maintain DRM solely to extract an maximum profits and lock in their customers and sellers. It is extortion and should be illegal.