Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don’t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the author or just wants to skim through it, he will download the book.
He usually doesn’t like to pirate from small companies or professors who are trying to make a living by selling books, but from millionaires & plenty of mega corps which already have loads of money, he feels like it’s the right move to pirate
Also, have you ever noticed that you have felt that the value of a product has decreased just because you didn’t pay for it, thus you are less interested to read it? i.e., had you paid for the book, you would have more likely read that book.
He says he will buy stuff when his time is more valuable than money, let’s all hope that day is soon.
What are your piracy habits?
My friend only pirates 80€ games to try them out before buying.
I pay for all the cable channels, netflix, hulu, d+. I had HBO Max before they started doing whatever it is they’re doing. At this monthly cost, I should have access to everything that existed 6 months ago and older. The fact that they can’t sort out all greed and multi-million dollar media exec paychecks is none of my concern. If I were to keep copies of everything that I like, I find it REALLY hard to feel bad about that.
Working minimum wage or struggling with money for any reason shall not mean you cannot have nice things in life, never. So I do the thing. Sometimes. Normalizing spending money into things you physically cannot touch is one thing i could get over with, like buying GOG (DRM free) games i’ll actually end up playing, but licenses to play a dang video game that is valid for god knows how long? This is where I draw the line.
Your friend is right: when them corpos suck us dry, we gotta suck em back. It is easy as that.
Furthermore: It’s not piracy when paying for it is not owning it.
If its region locked i pirate it. I just cant be bothered to look for a vpn that’s not blocked by this site. Alao if site is a shit i pirate it ,in my case crunchyroll . I really tried using it but Its just not working with my shitty internet and the buffer size is too small to load whole wideo while i do other stuff. YouTube and Netflix somehow works on my internet.
I pirate media only, not games. Simply because I don’t want to risk getting malware. Also too cheap to bother with streaming services; I want to own my media.
For me, it’s simple. I generally stick to A/V media for any of the Linux ISOs I download.
It simply comes down to this: is there a simple, and affordable way for me to watch what I want? If so, do it.
For music, I just have a subscription to my music service of choice. For me that’s YouTube music (formerly Google Play music); but it could just as easily be apple music or Spotify or tidal… they all have 99% of all music, so the provider I go with will service all my needs for less than $20/mo. With ytm, I can also share the service with family, without really any additional cost. Within limits, of course.
For TV/movies, everything is splintered between more than a handful of services, each charging ~$15/mo or more. So to get access to everything, I would need to pay more than $100/mo.
Yo ho ho me maties. That’s not simple, nor cheap. Yarrrr.
Give me a single website to go to, that gives me a single reasonable fee that I can then access everything on paramount+, HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+… (You get the idea)… and I’ll hang up my hat for good. Since that’s never going to happen, I’ll just be over here, sharpening my hook.
Yes. Because I can’t afford either.
I think copyrights are a heresy, a cancer for humanity. So I don’t care about pirating.
But I don’t pirate much these days because it became more difficult with torrent and I can easily pay for video games and support the studios I like.
Man, what an echo chamber of anti-corporation and anti-copyright sentiments. I pirate myself, because the services for tv/movies are not convenient, but I don’t delude myself into thinking it’s somehow justified. If I could get any movie or series on demand like spotify I wouldn’t pirate (if I could afford it). I fail to see how anything else would be ethical to the creators of the content.
I want to start pirating and I want a forever solution to media management. Photos, music, movies/television, audiobooks/podcasts, even construction literature I use for work. I don’t know where to begin however. I’m just thinking I’ll need to spend an incredible amount of money if I ever want to continue any subscription model.
I just pirate everything because it’s easier.
When I was younger (< 25) I would pirate loads - music, films, tv shows, games etc. The main driver was that I was poor and wouldn’t have paid for them anyway, but also it was convenience , streaming services weren’t around yet so it was the only way to consume digital products.
Now that I’m older and have a decent salary, I don’t do it anymore. I’m happy to pay for Spotify and have a really easy experience, or use Amazon or Netflix. I don’t play PC games anymore either. The only act of piracy I do now will be the very odd occasion where I watch to watch a full F1 race that I missed, but the service that I pay for might not have uploaded the race for up to 24 hours later. I don’t want to wait because I run the risk of coming across spoilers and I’m eager to watch what happened, and seeing as I’m already paying for the service to watch the race I don’t see what the issue is by seeing it a bit earlier.
After going through many phases of why i should and or want to pirate, i honestly just stopped giving a shit entirely about any of those and i ended with “who gives a shit, fuck em”
those that deserve my money get it directly
I like stealing
I don’t justify it. I stopped caring. That’s as evil as it can get, I suppose.
