(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles)
Plz seed.
Hop on i2p! I dl’d it there.
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
Actual piracy involves a lot of corpses of mostly innocent sailors, IP violations are a victimless crime.
“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.
Totally agree. The self aggrandizing, “hero of digital media preservation” thing is getting a bit ridiculous.
Aggrandize deez nuts bro. And being a hero of digital media preservation is only one of the myriad of reasons to pirate, such as
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Not accidentally signing away your rights to sue Disney due to forced arbitration when you avail a free trial of Disney+
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No drm
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Puts economic and financial pressure on the studio to keep games cheap
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I’ll eat my hat if that turns out to be a working defence for Disney, so as a reason to pirate, it’s pretty feeble.
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Duh?
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Hardly. Hollywood is breaking box office records every other month, and the pirating community is very, very small compared to the larger population. Have you looked at video game prices lately? Movie ticket prices? Theyre out of control, seemingly not bothered by piracy in the slightest. Studio lawyers are going after piracy because they have nothing else better to do then pursue every point of revenue increase they possibly can, including going after the small fish.
But you forgot the biggest reason…It’s free.
The large majority of people who pirate couldn’t give a shit about “digital media preservation”. Sure, people all have their own reasons, but to the other commentors point, most people are gonna delete shit right after they listen/play/watch it. Storage space is expensive.
Just because they don’t give a shit about media preservation doesn’t mean they’re not helping towards media preservation by pirating. Just by downloading a torrent you share upload bits of it while you download, even if you stop and delete it after you watch it. And i’d argue, the more people have media, the less likely it will fade away in 100 years.
How does this article show it was a valid defence? They withdrew, as they knew it clearly wasnt going to work for them, so im not sure what your point is…
Oh oof
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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
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.
You pirate to preserve media.
I pirate because I like pissing off billion dollar conglomerates.
We are not the same.
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
This was not wise. Green bubbles usually mean “now they know”.
Let them know. Let them send their letters. I’m running out of toilet paper to wipe my ass with
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.
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
