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Piracy is just a part of life now. Thoughts?
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Noboru Wataya
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I’m watching through all of beavis and butthead at the mo (thanks to a poster the other day putting it in my head) and there is no way to watch it with music videos unless you pirate it.
I usually buy everything even if the money is going to a reseller. For example I pirated a rare Sega Saturn game to see if I’d like it before I spunked £600 on a copy on eBay. I played it, I loved it, I spent the money. That piracy harmed no one and in fact helped that reseller.
I usually buy everything even if the money is going to a reseller. For example I pirated a rare Sega Saturn game to see if I’d like it before I spunked £600 on a copy on eBay. I played it, I loved it, I spent the money. That piracy harmed no one and in fact helped that reseller.
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Phunkydiabetic
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This was kind of the take I had on that reply and in the end it is just like any number of justifications people use to make it ok.
It appears we must put disclaimers so here it is. Yeah I've pirated, yeah I would download a car if given the chance. Nowadays I've shifted my own personal morals in a different direction but I'm certainly not here to judge. I do find the mental gymnastics with piracy to be a fascinating look into the psyche of people.
I even do my own brand of justifications myself. I dont pirate movies or games or shows anymore but I do pirate books off of irc channels. My own personal justifying comes when I want a book, I will look up the book in my local library and see if they have it. The thing is, I don't want a book. They are a pain in the ass, with an .epub I can read it anywhere I want. So if the local library has it I feel justified in downloading a copy because "well I COULD go and take the book out from the library...".
In the end piracy and the justifications for it come from a bizarrely twisted point of entitlement. If it was 1973 and I wanted that book, or movie or show or whatever and I couldn't afford it or have access to it then too bad. Better make more dough or whatever but you sucked it up and moved on with life. Nowadays people don't want to or can't buy a game or whatever yet they feel like they deserve to have the product anyways, simply because it is so easily and readily available to be pirated. Entitlement to the max.
I gotta say I much prefer someone to just be straight up and say "I just don't want to pay for it" rather than come up with some convoluted excuse based on whether or not it meets an arbitrary wokeness cutoff point. "Too woke? Then I shall take it!" just kinda sounds cringe.
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Great Hair
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Be more frugal; less is more!
-Arcadia-
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The point was adequately explained, Phunky. If you want to do the slimeball thing you've been doing since the beginning of your stay here and misrepresent the arguments of your opponents completely, attacking a facsimile instead of the point made, then you're free to.
I won't be taking the bait, however, and suggest that nobody else does. Let this poster's poor political trolling scream into the vacuum.
SafeOrAlone
Banned
Agreed.
As an aside, someone (I forgot who) once referred to pirating as "peak consumerism", in that you have such an appetite to consume product that you must have it despite it not being affordable to you (or you just don't want to pay, more realistically). I tend to agree.
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Phunkydiabetic
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My "opponents"? Do you really think I'm that fragile as to label you my "opponent" because I'm discussing people's justifications behind piracy? This is what I find humorous about you Americans(I'm assuming you are), it is always here or there. If you're not here with me then you are over there, my opponent. A basic difference in opinion has now made us "opponents". It's quite exceptional that you would consider my reply to be "political trolling". Is that how utterly brainwashed you've become?
Do you see how "smoothbrained" (to use one of your phrases) that thought process is? It appears you would feel more comfortable in an echo chamber like setting but this place doesn't come across that way. Unfortunately your desire to have me ignored and "yelling into the vacuum" in order to have your comfortable chamber like setting will probably not happen. That's life bro.
synchronicity
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I don't want to derail the topic too much, and I'm not criticizing
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fwiw, but I think probably the biggest problem with human culture is that "us vs them / me vs you" mentality. That black/white, either you're with me or against me mindset is so damaging to society and our sense of goodness of each other. We *can* differ and still love one another, and believe it or not, if we are willing to discuss in a civil and respectful manner, we can actually learn to understand - if not always appreciate/agree with - another point of view. We're all different, and yet, all the same. Let's be good to each other. (go ahead and mock my naiveté 
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xellos2099alpha
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Cheap affordable streaming made thing easier but there are a lot of stuff not on Netflix, Amazon prime. Example Nova..... I am not subbing to another service just to watch 1 show
-Arcadia-
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I don't want to derail the topic too much, and I'm not criticizing
Have a good read of his post history sometime. Really drill in there. That should about settle that.
I don't break bread with people who can never argue honestly, and have demonstrated that behavior consistently for close to a year.
If Phunky wants my respect, he can approach a debate from the position of actually addressing the argument and positions taken, versus, how can I paint my, yes, opponent in the worst possible light?
If it was once, okay. Twice. A little worrying. But constantly? Never stopping? That's the recipe for a garbage-tier poster, and one that I don't feel a need to engage with.
Newly Vacant
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I have no strong feelings on piracy anymore. When billion dollar companies are telling customers they're "happy to lose" them, I don't really care much about the effect of piracy on their bottom line. When movie studios, musicians, and celebrities are happy to tell half of America to skip their content, it's not hard to morally justify pirating that content. Do it or not, there's no moral high ground either way.
synchronicity
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Fair enough. I don't really have a good enough memory to identify most posters with their history. Like I said, my comment wasn't directed at you - just a general thought on human interactions. No doubt, there are people who we all find difficult to deal with - for whatever reason.
Phunkydiabetic
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I am flattered that you would spend so much time delving into my post history. Not sure how you could get so triggered by my reply here but I am certainly not pining for your respect, no worries there. My reply could be summed up to "I find it very fascinating the mental gymnastics people go through to justify their piracy", then I even provide an example of MYSELF doing it. Yet you end up in shambles and completely shut down any potential conversation. Bizarre behavior.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
I haven’t pirated media in over a decade. Media is just too cheap nowadays and conveniently distributed. The hour or so I’d waste securing pirated media is worth to me tens of times more than the cost of acquiring it online. Buying for me is essentially cheaper.
PS: I am not against pirating media. Sometimes there are good reasons such as preserving the integrity. I just consume media for mindless entertainment and have no incentive to pirate it.
PS: I am not against pirating media. Sometimes there are good reasons such as preserving the integrity. I just consume media for mindless entertainment and have no incentive to pirate it.
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T8SC
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No, I pay. I earn enough to be able to spend £10 or whatever on a cinema ticket/DVD/Blu-Ray etc. (Or CD, or a subscription service etc).
I know a lot of people who use "Showbox" and all manner of other apps to stream (usually poor quality) stuff and most of them earn enough to actually pay for a subscription or whatever. It boils my piss.
Look at the amount of movies that have been box office failures over the past 10 years, then compare that to box office failures (or bombs) in the 70s, 80s, 90s when piracy was a lot less (Though still did occur).
One day we'll wonder why we cant have great looking movies/TV shows etc, then we'll realise "We never funded them, we wanted it all for free".
If you cant afford something, do you steal it from a shop? Exactly.
I know a lot of people who use "Showbox" and all manner of other apps to stream (usually poor quality) stuff and most of them earn enough to actually pay for a subscription or whatever. It boils my piss.
Look at the amount of movies that have been box office failures over the past 10 years, then compare that to box office failures (or bombs) in the 70s, 80s, 90s when piracy was a lot less (Though still did occur).
One day we'll wonder why we cant have great looking movies/TV shows etc, then we'll realise "We never funded them, we wanted it all for free".
If you cant afford something, do you steal it from a shop? Exactly.
SafeOrAlone
Banned
In the 21st century - in a mad world plagued by propaganda-leaders called superheroes , piracy - nay - "media liberation" and the ability to watch whatever propaganda we want - FOR FREE - well, it's the only sane answer.
Tesseract
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MaestroMike
Gold Member
I may or may not clear all the data from a second browser I barely use and copy links of articles from ft.com or wsj.com and search for them on google to read them for free.
Jesus Carbomb
From Water into Guinness
Yo hook a brother up with some Beaver and Buttface
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sol_bad
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This right here, when I was in the Philippines and I had no access to streaming services or no decent access to blu rays, it was a massive pain in the arsenal to pirate shit.
Downloading a single movie multiple times in high quality on a 5mbps connection. And then hoping one would play on the available blu ray player properly. It was a nightmare.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
No. I've never pirated a movie, TV show or music. The only video game I've ever downloaded was a GBA game that I've never seen a copy of in person, and hardly ever popped up on eBay at the time. I don't see any benefit in stealing media.
quickwhips
Member
No but i would never admit to it.
brap
Banned
Piracy is for people with taste. If everything you want is legally available you have no taste in anything.
MetalAlien
Banned
I grew up recording movies off cable with my VCR, recording music off the radio with my cassette deck, and going to buy used games at the local game store. None of that became a crime until the internet.... so no I don't care.
Starlight Lotice
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I was born too late for this revelation! Although I heard that in the 80s, you could find Porn Magazines in the middle of Forests.
Still incredible to see people go to such lengths!
Charles Brandon
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finding a scud mag in a bush was a right of passage for a young gentleman intent on frantic onanism in my day. Saved you the furtive trip to the newsagent, the hanging around the shelves waiting for the shop to empty, the dash to the counter with your chosen periodical, the tense wait for the clerk to decide whether he really wanted to sell softcore grumble to a 14 year old. The shame of the brown paper bag, only used for one purpose. That was porn.
nush
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The "Porn Bunny"would visit forrests, woods, truck stops and railway sidings right up until the late 90's. Then the internet happened and nobody needed printed porn anymore.
nush
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I have a couple of buying porn mag stories. Internet porn has robbed the youth of thier own tales of adventure on the high streets of small towns seeking fresh grot mags unsullied from rain and stuck together pages.
Charles Brandon
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In the UK hardcore was banned until maybe the late nineties so the best you could hope for was tits and bush.
Unless you want on holiday to the continent of course, or had a mate with a link to moody VHS tapes. Most lads of my generation probably didn't see hardcore porn growing up though. And the imagination wank was still the main method for a successful J Arthur
Unless you want on holiday to the continent of course, or had a mate with a link to moody VHS tapes. Most lads of my generation probably didn't see hardcore porn growing up though. And the imagination wank was still the main method for a successful J Arthur
Charles Brandon
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dancing on tiktok instead. It's a fucking disgrace.
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SLoWMoTIoN
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No, but I'm gonna leave this here.
nush
Member
and come back with a pack of French nudie playing cards.
Imagine having to wank off over a playing card. Sounds insane now.
squallheart
Member
Us in our late 30s were the original pioneers of piracy. Oh memories of trying to download the girl looked good to me after 9 coronas on 56k. "Mom you picked up the phone again!"
Charles Brandon
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Or one of those pens where the swimsuit fades away when you tilt it upright.
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Javthusiast
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I know for a fact most people pirate porn on a daily basis. xD
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Is it really piracy when your mom just sends it to me without me wanting or asking for it? I call that harassment...
Javthusiast
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lingpanda
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Yes but no games. I did many moons ago. I pay for several streaming services so it's usually to see it early, and than eventually I end up streaming it on one the pay services. I'll also get the itch to watch something from several decades back and look up if it's streamable. Find out it's not, but it's like $9.99 to buy or stream. That's a big nope. Not paying a months worth of streaming for one movie.
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SLoWMoTIoN
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What kind of degenerate downloads it?
LaughingStock
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I pay for convenience. If a movie or series i'm interested isn't available on netflix or prime i'll just pirate it. Like Servant or Mandalorian.
I pay for Spotify and pirate songs that are not available there.
With games i only pirate when i'm not sure if i'm going to enjoy the full game. Like a demo. If i like the "demo" i'll buy the original. Last time i did it was with Snowrunner. I've been doing this for years.
I pay for Spotify and pirate songs that are not available there.
With games i only pirate when i'm not sure if i'm going to enjoy the full game. Like a demo. If i like the "demo" i'll buy the original. Last time i did it was with Snowrunner. I've been doing this for years.
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brap
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JAJAJA
No, but I'm gonna leave this here.
Jesus Carbomb
From Water into Guinness
Can someone hurry up with that Cringe react.
Javthusiast
Banned
Watching it also counts as pirating.
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