Convo about piracy with my friend
Convo about piracy with my friend
(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles)
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I’m so paranoid I would never talk about that over SMS. 😂
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Damn I’d talk about it on national tv here in Australia. It’s just piracy, nbd.
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Well at least you’re using i2p, I kind of wish more people would. I just don’t like generally using unencrypted communication methods, so discussing even a simple crime like piracy is no bueno for me.
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you can pirate games but don't jerk yourself off about it, you don't have to justify downloading video games as media preservation to not be a bad person because of it
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Fuck paradox DLC pricing
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I love paradox games, but the amount of dlc is killing me. I love how they continue to support their games, yes, but damn.
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And then when they do update the game, and add 20 more dollars of new dlc at the same time, if you're someone who likes mods, well congratulations. Your installation is ruined and you can't go back to your saved game(s) without there being some level of headache involved. At this point a high seas version of stellaris would probably be a relief, since there's no auto updates and all dlcs. But here I am, a sucker who bought like three-quarters of the dlc over the years and can't even play it because I'll just be sad my last playthrough got ended prematurely with a dlc release... Fuck Paradox and all their games.
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i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday
A bit late if you already told a commercial company about your piracy, as well
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Historical piracy was never about social justice, especially when you consider that a number of pirates during the 1600-1800s received government's blessings to operate, so long as they didn't attack the nation's ships.
Pirates simply did on sea the same thing highway robbers have been doing on land since the dawn of civilization.
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Exactly.
Piracy was "tolerated", because it stole money from competitors.
Even if a pirate lied and only turned over some of the booty to the crown, it still took it from their enemies.
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There were also those pirates that were told "alright we don't need you anymore. Don't pirate." And went "well if the agreement is over, I guess we can pirate your ships too!"
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Your reminder that Nintendo 64 games on the Nintendo Switch are using an open source emulator that Nintendo has not contributed to or endorsed in anyway, and is believed to be using game ROMs collected by preservationists.
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Corporations using open source projects to maximize profits is very common.
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I don't remember which game, but there was one that it came out that they straight up lost the files for and had to download from a ROM site to put on the virtual console thing
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Idk abour other people but i pirate everything first and if its good i buy it. I pirated a bunch of games back in the day and bought the good ones. Terraria, geometry dash, minecraft, etc(can you tell i played on mobile lol)
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except geometry dash i woulda guessed pc
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Its so much better on pc....
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"It's expensive, but I still want everything, so I pirated it. Seems pretty justified."
Look, I've pirated a ton in my life, but this whole "This is actually a noble pursuit" is such a load of fucking horse shit. We want something and don't want to pay the price that is required to get it, so we take it. The best part is "preserving" it, because we all know that when this guy is done playing, it will be deleted and he'll never think of it again.
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I just don't feel like giving Hollywood anymore more money. Fuxk them
That's all 🐸
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This is a much more honest answer, one that I also agree with.
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Totally agree. The self aggrandizing, "hero of digital media preservation" thing is getting a bit ridiculous.
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Aggrandize deez nuts bro. And being a hero of digital media preservation is only one of the myriad of reasons to pirate, such as
- Not accidentally signing away your rights to sue Disney due to forced arbitration when you avail a free trial of Disney+
- No drm
- Puts economic and financial pressure on the studio to keep games cheap
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Also not true, i seed in i2p
And also, leechers help in media preservation as well. The more copies there are of media, the more likely it will be preserved well into the future. Even if they dont seed now, just having and spreading copies of media definitely does help in media preservation
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This was not wise. Green bubbles usually mean "now they know".
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Let them know. Let them send their letters. I’m running out of toilet paper to wipe my ass with
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Actual piracy involves a lot of corpses of mostly innocent sailors, IP violations are a victimless crime.
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Look guys, you don't need to justify your piracy. There is nothing ethically wrong with pirating media.
Anticonsumer practices are justification enough. If someone has a childish response of "uR sTeaLiNg!!", give them an equally childish retort and tell them to eat your farts.
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You pirate to preserve media.
I pirate because I like pissing off billion dollar conglomerates.
We are not the same.
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I pirate cause I can 🤷♂️ I spend a lot of money on media and gaming, sometimes I'm not $60 interested though lol.
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I am with this guy... Piracy generates some of the best corpo cope content
Priceless seeing them getting twisted INA not about it with all of their lawyers and can't do shot about some poor sucker just watching it without laying daddy the tax hehe
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I’d argue that indeed we do as a community need to justify our actions. Mainstream knowledge and media label us as close to thieves and criminals. People need to realize we just want to share bits and bytes across the internet, and we are stewards of media preservation and freedom of information. As cracking down piracy become normalized, it’s even more important to have a voice in society, and reassure people that what we’re doing is morally grounded
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Book recommendation on "actual piracy": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541876.Villains_of_All_Nations
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"The complete experience..."
Dude most of those DLCs for Stellaris are just new parts for customizing the look of your civ. Only 2 actually are like expansions for the game that add more than just aesthetic content.
Not saying you should have bought it over pirating, but like... You could have saved bandwidth by also not getting most of those DLCs at all.
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Oh frfr
Which ones?
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While I am also not a huge fan of their DLCs it does actually make sense.
The base game is still a good game many many years after release and it's even better now than it was at release due to the free updates that come with the paid DLCs. There is also little reason to buy every single DLC at once or at all. You buy the ones with features you like. And there are obviously sales too. Don't buy at full price! Everybody knows that.
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Good luck
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(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles
yessir imma ambush my friends about signal soon
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