I wanna listen to a particular song by an artist who has recently turned pretty nazi. As I generally use Spotify I now refuse to listen to his music in there, esp as it generates earnings. I kinda wanna pirate the music somehow…I’m not gonna as I’m not gonna down a song or two and then store it on my phone like it’s the year 2000. But short story is this me justifying piracy to myself.
Ripping off Jeff Bezos is a moral imperative.
Why so specific…
Deny all parasites profit and engagement as much as possible where ever possible.
Who else owns as much content and causes so much harm?
Disney, Sony, comcast among other media conglomerates
Dropping truth bombs here
Similarly, I have pirated The Sims 4 multiple times. Not because I plan on playing it any time soon, but rather because stealing from EA Games is always morally correct.
The Sims 4 is the only game my wife plays nowadays. You can bet we didn’t pay the hundreds of dollars it would cost to get all the DLC.
Ripping off most of the big streaming services is a moral imperative. They are all corrupt and evil in one form or another. Except Dropout. If you pirate Dropout content you’re a dirtbag.
Personally I won’t even download it, I even deleted music ive had for years because the artist went maga. And let my daughter use the CD in some arts and crafts, because I can’t listen to it anymore.
That said, yeah, I’d prefer to download over buying if I didnt want the company or artist to get the money for it.
When I wanted to revisit Harry Potter via audiobook, I pirated the books, and I will do it again someday.
I would rather own my files on my phone like it’s the year 2000 than my devices becoming useless whenever $streaming_service shuts down like it’s the year 1984…
I agree with this. But also, it’s hard to beat the convenience of music streaming. It’s getting more expensive, which is sad, but for awhile there it worked great. Almost any artist or music you wanted, just, available.
Personally between downloading music from youtube with yt-dlp and bandcamp I don’t feel like I’m missing out.
Downloading and listening can still indicate an indirect form of support. Up to the individual, but I lean towards this guy being as canceled as possible, recommend rerouting any efforts to listen to this towards searching for some new exciting music.
You have commitment issues with subscriptions.
I despise rent seeking behaviour.
we are not the same.
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I have this. Paid for these things through from cassette and VHS to cd/dvd then paying for streaming. I have paid over and over for some content. I hate subscriptions.
My wife refuses to let me pirate books for her. She wants to support the authors she reads, which is fair. But she decided she wanted to try the Harry Potter books, and asked me to pirate them for her to make sure JK Rowling didn’t get a penny out of her.
Now that’s a keeper
Yeah. She doesn’t see the value in getting entertainment for free while there are starving children in the world.
She’s only interested in getting brownie points from other consumerists.
Yeah, sure sucks when people go out of their way to bend their personal code of supporting creatives they enjoy to ensure they don’t contribute money to a hateful bigot who actively makes things worse for vulnerable minorities. Yeah, that sure is motivated by external approval of internet strangers.
Yes I do this all the time for games
They tell us we don’t own the game, only a license to play the game that they can arbitrarily revoke.
If you are going to hold my right to play something I paid for hostage, you can bet I am going to reclaim what I lost if that access is taken away from me (this does not apply to you selfish assholes that hack games to cheat then get banned).
Disco Elysium is a great target for this
Eh, it’s kinda down to personal perspective. In mine, absolutely a reasonable way to handle things if you love the art, but don’t feel morally comfortable supporting the artist.
I recommend people pirate Enders Game, because fuck Orson Scott Card.
I was a newly out queer teenager when OSC started running his mouth about gay marriage. At the same time I was a big Harry Potter fan.
Fuck Orson Scott Card, but he doesn’t seem quite so bad anymore.
I view it like the “discomforting uncle versus outright hateful aunt”. I still really don’t want to support him, but equally, fuck her, she’s out here on the fucking daily with her shit.
Plus, at this point, telling someone to pirate anything Rowling is like telling someone to breathe. You’re either doing it, or okay with the outcome of your actions.
Basically, don’t invite either of them to queer Thanksgiving.
I wouldn’t invite either to straight Thanksgiving either. Who wants that kind of toxic shit bag hanging around? Fuck those assholes and the hateful garbage they spew.
What about Hogwarts Legacy? I find the game is in an awfully awkward position. I absolutely do not condone Rowling and have divorced her from the franchise as well as almost everything newer than Deathly Hallows from my beloved IP, also hate WB for being corpo scum, but I really liked the groundwork the game laid down so I’d like to see Avalanche Software get a chance to make another game that fixes what the first got wrong while building on what it got right.
Without demolishing copyright laws, we have to give money to WB and some unknown percentage to the witch to get the game we want and I, personally, think we HP fans deserve a genuinely good Hogwarts simulator along the lines of HL meets Bully. Sadly, I can’t designate my money to only go to Avalanche.
So in short, can we kill Rowling, WB execs and still get a Hogwarts 2 Electric Boogaloo? Because I like that option. Short of it, pick your annoyingly screwed moral box 😒
What about Hogwarts Legacy? Fuck copyright laws, pirate it. Just like with any other big-name game, lots of people will be buying it. Nobody will notice or care that you pirated.
we HP fans deserve a genuinely good Hogwarts simulator along the lines of HL meets Bully
If only Rockstar would make Bully: The Dark Ages.
Well yeah, I don’t respect copyright law at all, but with HL, I genuinely liked the product and only bought after reviews and because I wanted it to be seen as a success so a sequel could get greenlit. I voted with my wallet for the product I want to see more of but I find it it a complicated stance when rubbing up against art vs artist.
See, that’s the thing. I don’t listen to music by Nazis.
Yeah I pirate all the games that:
- Require an internet connection
- Use Denuvo
- Require a dedicated launcher
- Require a connected account
If you’re going to make the paid experience significantly worse than the free one because you want to implement anti-consumer BS, go fuck yourself
Also rootkit anti cheat.
Really important “morals” you’ve got there. External launchers? Really? Almost like people just look for excuses to pirate and save money. At least be honest with yourself.
Then don’t give me excuses. Don’t be a scumbag. External launchers only exist to serve ads and DRM, they have no benefit to the consumer. I own hundreds of games, imagine if each one of them required a dedicated launcher!?
Yeh I am not a gamer but have a family of them. As the tech person I’m usually the one dealing with purchases and set up. The evolution of gaming has become a real burden.
A system that allowed one to pirate corporate American made or distributed content while being able to give back directly to creators would be nice.
Go to their shows. Buy their merch. That’s where the creators get the most profit.
Nobody is stopping you from pirating
Many musicians are set up to accept cash
If it can’t own my media, I’m certainly not going to pay for it.
Corpos think we are stupid and they gonna be able to use the big dick of daddy Sam to force us into compliance…
These idiots don’t understand who the back bone of piracy communities are 🤡
Yup, if you use Denuvo for your games, you can fuck right off
I periodically delete my Metallica collection so I can re-download it for no other reason than fuck Lars.
I play bass. Metallica cut Newsted’s bass line out of And Justice for All. I’ll hate them for it forever. I love Trujillo now and still have not listened to a single Metallica album since he’s played with them.
metallica are honestly a bunch of babies.
Doing this is not only moral; it’s virtuous.
