The crazy thing is that you’ve been tricked into thinking piracy even is theft
When subtraction is equivalent to addition because capitalists needs to justify owning the means of production.
I pirate because I like it when I have movie and money at the same time
its very cool and funny to do crimes, actually
Copyright infringement isn’t a crime though, only commercial copyright infringement is.
I don’t know why some people sugar coat it.
I’d pirate anyway because I don’t wanna spend money, and so would a lot of people who instead hide behind excuses.
I have seen these big long winded speeches about how immoral it is to sell copyrighted material and how some dumb shit like spiderman should fall under the ‘free sharing of ideas to better humanity’ and blah blah blah.
Bro. We are thieves. We are stealing because its easy and the products cost too much.
It also depends on who’s behind the product. Good indie game with one or a few developers - never. Adobe - I consider it a moral obligation.
it doesn’t matter why you’re doing the moral and correct thing, only that you do it.
…I mean…PIRACY IS WRONG AND IMORAL!
Partially.
The avoiding payments is immoral. The owning what you copied part not.
If I can download a game or a movie and then watch it offline without the possibility that the company I bought it from deletes it at any time from my hard drive then I would pay for such a service.
Steam is close but in theory they can delete your game once they decide that you shouldn’t have access to that game anymore.
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I love stealing~
I like taking things~
They committed the cool crime of stealing!
yeah…“stealing” by not paying for an infinitely copyable item from a giant corporation that made tens of millions of dollars while I was typing this.
It’s a quote from Futurama, like the comment I replied to was. 🤦♂️
I just enjoy having 1 app to browse the content I want to watch instead of a dozen different apps that suck in their own special ways.
I pirate games because the idea of a poor, overworked developer go homeless gets me hard.
Why not both? I dont NEED 90% of the forgeries I download, but a good 60-80% of them I’d still pay for if digital media ownership wasnt such a fucking shit show right now. Treat me with respect as a customer or I’ll fucking fly the flag, I’m not a sack of money you can punch to get money out of it because you’re too fucking lazy to get some respectfully
I literally got a movie called “Cocaine Shark” like last month because of the title alone lol. It’s a terrible movie, but hey, it’s about a killr shark high on coke.
Have you seen cocaine bear? Are we getting a Cocaine Cinematic Universe?
As far as I know, it was made as a ripoff film, like how Asylum makes shitty movies thst are like popular properties, but not quite.
I figured, but to be fair, Cocaine Bear was basically just a well done B movie, so it could only be a TECHNICAL difference! =P
Pirating because you didn’t know that money can be exchanged for goods and services
I think piracy is the inevitable result of restricting access.
Given that music services like Apple music, Spotify, YouTube music, and others, all have access to just about anything you might want to hear as soon as it’s released, no matter what service you use, you get access. Pick your favorite.
Meanwhile in the world of TV and movies, everything is everywhere. If you want to pay for access to whatever you want to watch, you’re going to be subscribing to just about every video streaming service in existence to achieve it, because everyone has exclusives. Don’t like the website, user interface, search system, algorithmic suggestion system, mobile app, webpage, price, etc. Of a service? Too fucking bad, they’re the only one who streams that show you like, either pay too much for cable and sit on your couch every week at the same time to watch it there (if that’s even an option… and over pay for it), or use the stupid streaming service you hate to watch it. Your alternative? Piracy.
IMO, piracy is inevitable as long as access is this limited.
I don’t know anyone who pirates music anymore.
I know of plenty that pirate TV and movies.
Ethical theft should be the norm
You block ads because of privacy.
I block ads to cause the greatest amount of financial damage, purely out of spite.
We are not the same.
I also block ads because I want a clean page, plus the economical damage.
Yeah that’s my whole thing with ads, I understand monetization is necessary but it’s gotten so far out of fucking hand
I agree. Small, non-intrusive banner ads with an easy close button are fine. They get the message across without getting in anyone’s way.
The problem is the ads that stop you from doing anything for the best part of a minute. I don’t see how anyone has ever been convinced to buy whatever product is being advertised by these, but somehow, they’re the ones that are everywhere.
I used to NOT advocate for piracy. I still pirated shit because I did not want to pay but I never suggested that it was the right thing to do. But the way that these corporations try to fuck their customers more and more I feel like paying for something is basically tipping a billionaire. Their pockets are bottomless and they will figure out a hundred different ways to make sure they don’t pay taxes on those billions while the rest of us have to pay a third of our hard earned cash in taxes. Piracy is not only OK, I think it is warranted at this point.
EXACTLY
You’re not entitled to media. Just own the fact that you like stealing media.
The billionaires are not entitled to our excess labor value.
And billionaires are not entitled to fucking tax breaks every year. I’ll start paying when they start paying their fair share.
Also I literally said that in my comment. But you were too busy sucking off a billionaire.
Don’t worry, I’ve been following his simple minded, tone deaf train of thought for several posts.
He’s too busy posting to respond (rather than replying to discuss) to remember to cup the balls.
