What do you think about piracy? - I'd see no problem with it depending on the source.

[William Tell Underpass]

I would pirate things I would not pay to own / consume.

I developed this approach by realising I would almost never pay for things and gladly sit at home reading internet forums, project gutenberg, and playing 1999 unreal tournament if pirating was not an option.

At the end of the day if I didn't have the pirating option, those same people who don't get my money now still wouldn't.

I spend my dollar to promote things I like, such as the remasters of Crash & Spyro, but that is very much the exception.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

With everything being censored or hacked to pieces now to placate the far left, I have no issues pirating older shows or movies I like. I'm not selling the copies or redistributing them, just keeping them for my own enjoyment. I'd rather do that than hunt down out of print DVDs selling for an extremely high price, if the shows have even been released on physical media in the first place. I don't have to worry about disk rot either.

 

[stares at error messages]

The term that copyright protects a work could be shorter. Companies should not be all to own copyrights because companies are immortal and many copyright laws allow for N years after the death of the artist.

 

[IbnTaymiyyah]

Silicon Valley already mines my fucking data to no end, even when falsifying/compartmentalising as much of it as I can. The least I could get is some fucking gratis software out of it. Hell, they should be paying me for all the data they mined off of my accounts over the years. Do we see this happening? Of course not.

Objectively though, the WinRAR model is the best one in order to combat piracy. I will die on that hill tbh.

 

[nigger of the north]

I don't pirate nearly the amount of media I used to, but I'll still download film torrents and rip music illegally on occasion. That said, reasons why I do it:

1) I can do it, seemingly to no end, with no hope of punishment whatsoever

2) I'm big into my classic and foreign cinema, really hard to find shit. Criterion and a few other companies do restoration work on old films, extras, clean-up, etc; but their prices are nothing short of absurd, and really the domain of wealthy film students when purchased even in insignificant quantities

3) with software, as a kid and adolescent I simply didn't have access to any of the big suites due to being poor as fuck. Faced between that and harmlessly downloading an illegal copy, why wouldn't I? Hours of enjoyment and added skill sets accrued for nothing but my own time.

4) preventing buyer's remorse. We've all bought some expensive shit before and realised it was a mistake. I've experienced this countless times both in real life and with stuff I've pirated. In the case of the latter, all it to cost me was the time needed to search out the torrent.

5) I'm very much a physical media over digital kinda guy, so it never sits right for me paying for something which essentially doesn't exist. This is more applicable to software subscriptions and streaming services, but also other media. If I can get away with acquiring a gratis digital copy of something over paying for pixels, I'm going to do it.

6) I get supporting the creator and all that, but money spent on media which not necessarily need be spent, is taking away finite resources which could be better put to work on more pressing and important matters, i. e.: savings, sports gear and other items with no digital analogue, etc. Get the stuff that may be acquired for free, for free; and anything else which must be paid for, pay for it.

 

[💗Bitchstopher Columbitch💗]

 

[Pimpleking55]

Since everything has become digital i found there is no attachment to the product, i buy games on steam or movies on netflix and somehow it doesn't register with me as owning something. So pirating is becoming less and less an issue for me cuz there is no difference and more often than not the pirated version has all the dlc. I used to look at my game collection and cd collection with a bit of pride and always bought the fancy collectors edition but now you get a fancy box and in it is a piece of cardboard with a number to download the game....

 

[PhoBingas]

Literally nothing wrong with piracy only soy filled bitch niggas disagree with me.

95% of the time if I pirate something, I'll pick up the legit copy at some point. Call me cheap 'er whatever, but I've been shafted before by online game stores counting launcher install time as game time; so if a game runs like shit within or above spec, I'd rather not be on the hook for a 20-80$ game I won't be able to play without a couple hundred in upgrades.

 

[ClownBrew]

Firmly against it as I have worked as a pro musician. Sorry for the powerlevel.