Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don’t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the author or just wants to skim through it, he will download the book.
He usually doesn’t like to pirate from small companies or professors who are trying to make a living by selling books, but from millionaires & plenty of mega corps which already have loads of money, he feels like it’s the right move to pirate
Also, have you ever noticed that you have felt that the value of a product has decreased just because you didn’t pay for it, thus you are less interested to read it? i.e., had you paid for the book, you would have more likely read that book.
He says he will buy stuff when his time is more valuable than money, let’s all hope that day is soon.
What are your piracy habits?
Yes, I pirate. But I don’t justify it. 🤷♂️
It’s capitalism, the free market at work.
I need the definition of pirating since it always means something different to someone else.
If I stream movies and shows using my friends library am I pirating? What if I download a show from my friends library for later viewing for personal use, then delete it a week later since I don’t need it? Let’s assume my friends library was all purchased legitimatly.
If i don’t see the value i’m pirating.
Money is tight, don’t expect me to pay for a play button that you’ll take away the second i can’t spare the money. It means there is no value delivered for my money so i don’t have a reason to spend my hard earned money.
Especially when the amouny is as significant as 10/15€. Fuck i would’ve bought a cd for each month i could spare that money.
Not at all. This is not a moral judgement about anyone else. Just answering the question.
I guess I’ve reached a point in my life where I can easily afford to buy something if I want it, especially in the price range of a video game or book. I used to do all that stuff, not to get back at the man, but because it was the only option that was accessible. Eventually the hassle factor of piracy kept going up while just paying for it became an accessible choice.
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Yeah, sometimes.
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I justify it if it’s me getting free stuff from rich and greedy game dev companies, publishers, streaming services, large record companies, etcetera. They were never going to see my money anyways, so it’s not like they are losing any money (despite the fact they claim that they lose money from people who were never gonna buy their products in the first place).
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Again, they were never gonna see my money, so why should I care so long as I don’t get caught? Hell, even if piracy somehow became impossible, they’d still never see my money. With music, it’s more complicated since I usually just download songs off of YT to listen to on my phone or desktop.
Though, I will say that I will never buy into music streaming since I cannot say with certainty that whoever I’m listening to will get even a percent of a percent of a penny off me listening, while the service gets pretty much 100% of the profit and leaves the artists in the dust.
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Everything not physical that can be pirated should be pirated.
You have better thing to do with your money.
Books exist to be lent out.
Games too at the time. Now you can’t because of bullshit, so joke on them I won’t pay.
Books & Music money is not going to the artists.
Movie world is full of shit and overpaid anyway.
I also don’t wan’t a single of my cents going to USA or US company.
If I like something so much I feel I should pay, which is rare, I find a more direct way without leeches.
For me, it’s simple. I generally stick to A/V media for any of the Linux ISOs I download.
It simply comes down to this: is there a simple, and affordable way for me to watch what I want? If so, do it.
For music, I just have a subscription to my music service of choice. For me that’s YouTube music (formerly Google Play music); but it could just as easily be apple music or Spotify or tidal… they all have 99% of all music, so the provider I go with will service all my needs for less than $20/mo. With ytm, I can also share the service with family, without really any additional cost. Within limits, of course.
For TV/movies, everything is splintered between more than a handful of services, each charging ~$15/mo or more. So to get access to everything, I would need to pay more than $100/mo.
Yo ho ho me maties. That’s not simple, nor cheap. Yarrrr.
Give me a single website to go to, that gives me a single reasonable fee that I can then access everything on paramount+, HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+… (You get the idea)… and I’ll hang up my hat for good. Since that’s never going to happen, I’ll just be over here, sharpening my hook.
I pirate when getting a copy of something is otherwise too inconvenient and/or ridiculously overpriced and I REALLY need to watch it. I used to pirate basically everything. Nowadays very often I will wait for and then rent a movie on iTunes because that is the most convenient way and the price is fine. My FOMO is not as strong anymore. I also rarely watch any series that is not on a streaming service.
If its not multiplayer, why care.
I buy stuff to support authors/artists that I like, and my dollar goes further if I keep as much money as possible out of corporate hands. Oh and if any scum bag puts ads in something I already paid them for I am pirating and seeding the torrents.
I pay for free stuff (FOSS services etc), and pirate paid stuff. Feel right somehow, can’t explain why exactly.
Only thing I’ve pirated was a show with no reasonable means to access it legitimately in my region. Hell, I couldn’t even access it via VPN because the services it was on didn’t accept my card due to region.
Normally of the mind that if it isn’t worth my money it isn’t worth my time, but in this case I just wasn’t allowed to pay them for it. Hardly my fault when they’ve gone that far out of their way to block me buying it.
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I just started pirating again in the last couple of months after basically not pirating for years. Now fuck corporations lol.
I pirate books for a few reasons, first is because knowledge should be free, second is because buying books gets expensive real quick and third because I can’t find everything I want to buy, sometimes pirating is the only way to get it. I like to have it physically when possible, tho.
Entertainment (Series, Anime, Cartoons, Movies) I pirate because I’m sick of being a second class citizen of nearly every streaming service just because I’m a Linux user. I can watch netflix at 1080p with an extension on Firefox, and Crunchyroll doesn’t limit me in any way, but everything else is 720p or lower. By pirating, I even have 4k available. Also, fuck streaming prices and fuck netflix for charging extra for sharing an account.
Software I don’t pirate because I prefer to use FOSS and in the case of games I don’t really wanna gamble if I’ll get a malware or not. Besides, I have a huge respect for the medium and I buy a game whenever I can.
For music Spotify and Youtube is too convenient, I only pay for Spotify, tho. Revanced for Youtube on mobile and ublock origin + sponsorblock + return youtube deslikes on desktop is great.
Besides all that, everyone should have access to knowledge and entertainment, it’s 100% justified for people to pirate, specially those that can’t afford it.
Also, have you ever noticed that you have felt that the value of a product has decreased just because you didn’t pay for it, thus you are less interested to read it? i.e., had you paid for the book, you would have more likely read that book.
When I used to pirate heavily a decade ago yeah, today not really, buying or not my ADHD is so bad I can’t get through easily anyway lol.
