People who suggest piracy are annoying, amirite?

Does anybody actually believe people when they say they're only pirating because it's morally correct though?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Believe it or not, some people actually do. I am one of those. The situation is tilted so far towards the rightsholders, that I believe it's morally sound to pirate from companies who hinder independent preservation of the works they hold rights to. People like to throw around the words "steal" and "theft" a lot, but the only stealing/theft that's happening is the collective actions of the copyright industry in vacuuming up all the rights and hampering preservation. Copyright infringement has its own body of law that doesn't include theft statutes. However, hampering preservation is theft from the public domain in a very real way. If someone is a rightsholder who is against preservation, who thinks they have a right to destroy all copies of a work (or otherwise prevent people from using them), or who supports perpetual copyright, then that person is a thief as far as I'm concerned.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

people should be able to pirate but they shouldnt get mad when their favorite ip is cancelled after 2 seasons or the game developers talk about lack of sales profits imo

by Jprohaska 1 week ago

I do it as a way to "rent it" like you used to years ago. If i like it, i buy it. I wouldnt have bought Hitman WOA, lies of p, crusader kings3, and more i cant remember without having tried them.

by Abshirecaleb 1 week ago

Back In the I could only watch what was on tv unless you actually bought a dvd or vhs. The torrenting became widespread and you could download ‘what you wanted' to watch so you had to know what you wanted or you had to watch what was on. Then streaming came along and you didn't have to pirate to get a variety of shows that gave you choice outside of a tv channel. Now I know what I want to watch but have to pay for some random tv service so the prospect of just downloading one show for free is pretty appealing

by Sratke 1 week ago

Way back in the olden days, you used to be able to rent media for a reasonable period of time at a reasonable price. Physical copies of film and TV shows used to exist. If a friend of mine wanted to watch Training Day or Lost, but didn't want to rent it, I could just lend my copy to them for a week or two. You can't do any of that anymore. You rent a digital copy of something, and you have 24 hours to consume it. Forget sharing personal purchases between friends or family, that just ceases to exist. If I could consume media the same way I did just 15 years ago, I wouldn't pirate anything. But I can't. Every avenue that isn't paying the company that produced it directly and in full has been eradicated, except piracy. Want me to pay for media? Give me more than one way to get my hands on it.

by mcculloughoctav 1 week ago

I disagree that it can be morally correct. You don't get to decide when an artist just loses the rights to decide what happens with their creation, and evil actions don't become moral just because you didn't like the victim.

by WesternCantaloupe 1 week ago

Artists don't have the moral right to release something then hamper preservation. There is an obligation that the work will enter the public domain. If a work doesn't enter the public domain, then that is theft.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think when it comes down to a choice of you can buy a season of a show for 150 bucks or pirate it because someone else bought it and decided to share it. The choice is to pirate it. At that point, you're not hurting the creator at all. A person has already paid for it, and the creator got their cut. You're just bypassing a scalper.

by FunnyPineapple 1 week ago

In a world where their art is a product primarily concerned with profitability, you bet your ass I get to decide when to steal it; especially when unethical or downright idiotic monetization practices exist.

by Flatleysabrina 1 week ago

Ironically piracy is also responsible for unethical idiotic monetization. Games are more MTX, live service and online now to prevent piracy. Of course greed is the main factor but piracy's a big part too.

by Slow-Eggplant 1 week ago

I see your point, and support piracy like this. My problem isn't piracy itself.

by braxtonschulist 1 week ago

Nonono SkidrowReloaded!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

have you tried abandonware websites? it isn't piracy, it's salvage.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I like that so many people don't pirate because so long as the majority of people are paying, piracy isn't as enforced. Makes piracy for the rest of us real easy.

by baileyrupert 1 week ago

Arrrr, Fatbeard disagrees!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

First rule of swashbuckling... don't talk about swashbuckling. Loose ships sunk many a ship.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

sometimes its relevant though, For example if someone tells me they are gonna spend £70 to buy black ops 2 and the all the DLC because they wanna play zombies again, I'm obvs gonna suggest they pirate it because no one should spend so much money an 11 year old game.

by SignificantEye 1 week ago

You can pirate games? Like console games? How does one do this? Asking for a friend.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Google emulators.

by Anonymous 1 week ago