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[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Aye, I used to sail the high seas, the hull of my ship gnarly with viruses, adware and malware from some infectious crackers or key-generators.

Then I had money, and started buying my software and my movies and all was good for a time. Then my media consume shifted to mobile devices, but I had Amazon Prime Video as the only really available video-streaming service around and all was good for a time. Then I added Netflix, as it arrived on my countries market and all was good for a time. Then I added Crunchyroll, Disney+ and Hulu and everything sucked, streaming the shows I wanted to watch was suddenly so expensive, no single streaming service had everything I wanted to watch, so I needed to subscribe to them all, costing an amount of money I would not spend on buying those shows.

Now I have unsubscribed from all but two again, but the market is so fractured, there is barely anything interesting on the services I still go to.

So my eyes keep wandering to that old tricorn, the hook and peg-leg, gathering dust on the wall. I can hear the waves crashing and feel the tide rising in my bones. The moneybags have decided to press us for more and more, their greed means no single harbor, not even two are enough to supply our demands. So there is plenty of bounty to be found on the high seas again, big fat galleons full of content otherwise unreachable or too expensive.

Doncha hear it boys? Davey Jones is singing again, calling us back to the sea, put on your VPN, defy the torrents and right your compasses with a good magnet. We did not choose this life, they made us turn to it.

[–] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

In this moment I am euphoric vibes.

Being a proud pirate is some of the dumbest shit on the planet.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with sharing your favorite media.

[–] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

BUT HAVE YOU MADE IT YOUR ENTIRE PERSONALITY YET? HAVE YOU PROUDLY GONE ON TO THE INTERNET TO DECLARE YOU WILL ALWAYS PIRATE?

If you haven't you are definitely missing out.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Nah I am more of an open source and creative commons kind of guy

[–] InstallGentoo@lemmy.zip 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ironically piracy actually costs more than streaming if you intend to preserve media.

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Money is not the issue to me. I'll happily pay for every episode I watch, maybe even per download. I just don't want my content scattered across different platforms in suboptimal quality and be forced to pay a fixed fee even if I just need the one show on that platform.

It's a service issue.

[–] seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

If media/publishing companies would just throw the exclusivity model in the trash where it belongs (and let DRM die too), then everyone could pay to see what they want on their platform of choice without this bullshit. As long as that's not the case, I don't see myself using these "services".

[–] Rabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The hunt is part of the fun. Like how people will opt to build a PC or a keyboard over a pre-built or pull out vinyl over digital. The steps taken to retrieve and enjoy the media is sometimes a relaxing process.

[–] Redredme@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, no.

The hunt is only fun if you've got time to spare.

Throw in a spouse, kids, good but demanding job, a place to live, social obligations, detoriating (geriatric) parents, and you're so happy you can just mash one single button and your favourite track, game or series starts to play.

That's the reason why people stop pirating. Time.

When time is not (yet) your most precious resource you can see the fun in anything. Even virus scanning.

[–] bort@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

[something] is sometimes a relaxing process

Yeah, no.

[–] nickiam2@aussie.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I personally don't believe in copyright. Nobody should be able to own an idea or data and be able to tell me what i can and cannot do with said 1s and 0s, which is what digital media is. I will find other ways to support artists and creators like going to concerts, donating or buying merchandise etc... You can't steal data because nobody owns it to begin with in my view.

Anything confidential should be kept encrypted or offline of course.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I get what you're saying but copyright is necessary otherwise nobody would create anything. If you can't get compensated for your work then why put the effort in?

Hollywood wouldn't exist without copyright and you might say oh well Hollywood doesn't produce much good, but it does produce the vast majority of media you probably consume. I'm not saying you're completely wrong but I don't think you can just go Copyright = Bad, and leave it at that.

I know that's treason talk

[–] Random_German_Name@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Dunno man. I feel like there are a ton of artists, that don‘t earn a cent with their art

[–] pip@slrpnk.net 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you have money to spend (and THAT much), you can still pirate, but if you pirate without trying to fund the source of your art and tools, you're a mega asshole. Especially if you have as much money as this dude claims to have. You can find the creators of your games online, find their ko-fis, their patreons. Where there's a will there's a way

[–] lipilee@feddit.nl 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

this. pirate all you want, netflix/disney/etc. will be fine. but find and support the artist. this is why i'm now stuck with the crap news around bandcamp. there are less and less ways to support creators instead of the leeches every day :(

[–] ScandalFan85@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] sus@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

bandcamp was sold to epic games in 2022 and again to songtradr this year, and half its staff got laid off recently. CEO said that it was not profitable enough - though it was already very profitable. So it's likely to start squeezing every penny out of users and artists in the next few years

[–] ScandalFan85@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Oh, no. I love bandcamp. I don't want it to go down the drain. :c

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been pirating since I was a child. That being said, I don't think it's particularly healthy to pin 'media pirating' as a personality trait.

[–] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you know what community this is?

[–] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

participating in a community ≠ making it a lifestyle

[–] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

I think a lot of people in this community consider it a lifestyle to pirate media.