I’m rich, so I buy it, rip it and upload it to pirate bay.
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This is exceedingly rare, but I would buy it and then share it with the world for free.
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Usually the second, which is the most common option, because we know objectively that studios are in fact not “losing” eleventy billion dollars to piracy. If that were true most people would choose the first.
I’m not buying the new Pokémon game. I’ll play it on an emulator if it’s not too much hassle. I don’t have plans to ever buy it, and if it never works on emulation, I will just not play it.
In a different case, I’ve gone from pirating a bunch of games to buying them because I liked them and wanted the updates. BG3 for example.
Piracy is typically my last resort. It means it’s already unavailable under acceptable conditions.
Give up. I refuse to pay for artificially scarce goods.
This same applies to public transport tickets, end up either staying home or walking for hours so I don’t have to pay for the damn tickets that should be free.
public transport tickets
should be free
Coming soon, NYC ETA. 2026
Why should public transport be free? There are energy and building costs
Why should driving on roads be free? It costs the government money to build and maintain them, and it ain’t cheap to bail out the auto industry whenever needed. And cleaning up the atmosphere isn’t gonna be cheap. Why are the costs of driving mitigated at every level of society instead of just fully funding public transit?
It isn’t free. You pay road tax on every vehicle.
I should have acknowledged that in my highly rhetorical line of questioning, but are we going to pretend road tax covers the full cost of roads? It’d have to be much higher if it did, and it still wouldn’t cover the environmental cost of runoff and emissions, nor all the squandered space from parking minimums, etc.
These costs always get externalised to a large extent and we pretend we’re doing something normal because moneyed interests have made it the default option. But we’re not.
In my state at least millions in federal funding goes towards projects. Day to day operations are funded by state tax dollars and they still want people to pay ever increasing prices for public transport.
Honytawks argument further falls flat when you consider tax dollars do go to public transport.
Edit:clarified state tax vs federal
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I mean most “free” stuff isn’t literally free, it would be more correct to say its socialized, tax-payer funded.
Ask that the state that should back it and make it cheap.
Why should only the wealthy be able to move around??Just wait until you find out how much roads cost. No, gas and registration taxes don’t even come close to covering it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0
It’s usually the opposite that’s the issue for me. If it’s not free, OK, let’s pay, but if it’s not a reasonable price for the product (including both the content, usability, and reusability, in case of media), then I’ll go out of my way to get it free or totally give up on it depending on how much I want it. That’s why I switched from piracy to Netflix for many years and now am back to piracy because I like shows in the background while working on projects, for example, or piracy, then Steam, then, fuck gaming as much because I found other hobbies.
Most of the stuff I want to pirate, is because they are expensively rare or not available through stores. Mind, that might change in the future, just because of how crap the US economy is becoming for the ordinary person.
I want to support cool stuff by paying, if the terms are reasonable. That means no DRM, all content, and an appropriate price. It is mostly hentai games that I am buying, since the developers of those definitely need the money.
Indeed, wanker’s cramp is expensive to treat
I’m not employed and have little to no money, so…
Piracy is my main resort been doing it so long. After HD-DVD lost I was done buying media. Don’t get me wrong I still pirated before that but it was more renting and ripping DVDs.
Depends on how much I want it.
For music, I buy the CDs (if I can) to support the artist.
But I also recently ripped my whole spotify playlist.For other types of media, if it’s not in the quality I want, and it’s reasonable in price, I’ll pay it.
Then I’ll rip it and put it in my library.The album that costs $10-$20 puts less than half a dollar to the actual maker. Single digit pennies more often than not.
Concerts get them the most income and Ticketmaster is monopoly. Government, Govern Mente, to Control the Mind
If think with Mani Mani, you will be speaking with opposite meaning, not knowing why, and be psychotic because you will be physically attacked by objects and stop trying to understand anything anymore.
Cult.
I don’t think I will go over to Japan Comiket Bi-Seasonally to buy the CDs I’d like from an indie circle.
Tell them to accept Monero and send you an address to their wallet and and pay them directly for a digital copy of anything they make.
That’s a giant crack in the industry’s Vampiristic manipulation of manufacturing Golems. You get to show direct respect and appreciation to the artist. You want them to understand how their creation helped, inspired, healed, motivated, and in many ways just all around benefited you and enough people you know and care about that may do the same as well.
You also aught to learn how to properly encrypt and sign over PGP so that they equally acquire the kind of ability you both master being able to just ignore the Golems and make the Crack burn.
I’ve tried that though. I don’t understand it. I liked shit from the other side of the ball; and you gotta do this to get that. I learned from making a dedication of learning and understanding Base Logic itself and you should understand the importance of FOSS to conduct that at this using binary managedment of what you must now call the host a large amount of Logic management you respect now. Whether you know that or not.
It is the most vital asset to any person’s sole’s interaction with a computer because without it, you will never know whose instructions it follows, nor why.
Without it everything is just a gambling and you are now the entertainment being advertised in a chaos bartered broadcast. You don’t have to know why they’re watching you or how because Hellraiser and everyone else you saw way back when is now in Betelguese with Heath Ledger.
I never pay Capitalist corps/people unless pressured to a corner (most groceries, loans etc). I know they cheat, steal and lie - pretty much 24/7 - as their ‘free market’ gospel dictates, so any support for such a selfish/psychopathic organization are like shooting my self in the foot.
Intellectual ‘property’ is a special anti-intellectual joke that have emerged inside an existing Capitalist dystopia where everyone have to fight everyone else for their lives. So suddenly, some Capitalist smuck could whistle a tune, declare that sequence of sounds as “MY PROPERTY” and then - through violence! - everyone around the world have to pay this moron for the sequence of sounds. It doesn’t get much more dumb than that. We even see cities ‘protect’ their landmarks, so a f’ing photo is illegal without paying up, copyright for well known everyday things, and so on. It is incredibly easy to find insane examples. It’s all a race to the bottom, sigh… Oc, Capitalism have zero to do with ‘free markets’, and everything to do with warring/exploitation/protectionism - but all corps will always exploit.
Unfortunately, Capitalism runs on pure scarcity, so we can’t have surplus objects that can just be copied, tsk tsk, what disorder !! And of cause, if one lives in such a crappy backwards society, then everyone HAVE to fight for data that can be copyrighted, data that could otherwise be copied a gazillion times for everyones joy. So, Instead of free access to all that can be freely copied/enjoyed, we have capitalist silo’s of ‘property’, where everyone are forced to pay up to a conglomerate of capitalist cancer-like entities that will go to any length - even jailing people that refuse that violent/ridiculous property nonsense. No no, for propertarians, it’s better to slam everyone in the world with laws/threats of harm, to invade peoples privacy, and to have a whole multi-trillion business market, and an insane amount of law resources constantly working to keep this joke of a principle running. It all arose from out of that flawed premise of everyone fighting everyone else… Inefficient, stupid, and all just an unnecessary emergent artifact on top of the dumbest ideology the oligarchs ever invented.
Tldr; I’m also against intellectual monopolies
I completely agree with what you’re saying.
It’s the morons among us that can’t accept they’ve been taken for a ride.
There’s a child of books that I’ve bought in this way.
Also I bought some books that I’ve pirated, to support the author.
Depends. Sometimes I’ll give it up all together. If I think it’s worth it I’ll buy it. Other times I thought it wouldn’t be worth it and I pirate it and then I end up buying it afterwards. Other times I just wait for a steep discount/sale.
did it one textbooks one time, when i couldnt find it to pirate like 10 years ago. they were going hard against any newer versions before, and against the torrents/downloaders who were hosting the pirates.
I am far too poor to afford to buy shit. If I can’t pirate shit, I just do without. The only thing I pay for is music because they did it right. Mostly the same music on every platform. None of this exclusive bullshit. Plus it’s easier than piracy. Plus I listen to so much music
