Technology

I've started to pirate games again, which I never saw a reason to in 15 years. Simply because 2 hours refund window isn't enough for the crap they sell now. Performance from hell and half assed story after you left the tutorial.

Gamepass kind of stopped me a bit on that, but it's a subscription and only a matter of time till there's competition with exclusives and increased price.

Games also got too expensive, there's more competition than ever and I earn less money than my parents used to, I simply can't pay that much, yet the games start to cost 90€ upwards. So even if I buy a key, it's still 65€ or more, for an often broken game. No thank you.

If executives were hurting financially like everyone else, we would be more sympathetic. Pirate everything! Yes, if I could download a car, I would.

I get movies and TV shows from the digital high seas because it’s easier, and I openly admit this with my real name on my Lemmy profile.

Currently, I'm subscribed to four streaming platforms: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Crunchyroll, and Disney+. Despite this, I resort to pirating every piece of content I watch.

The simplicity of searching a title on Radarr or Sonarr and clicking 'add' vastly outshines the cumbersome process on legal platforms.

These sites are all flawed, tend to harbor more spyware than Windows and present a usability nightmare compared to the streamlined interface of Jellyfin.

In terms of ethics, my conscience is clear. If a movie or TV show isn't available on the platforms I subscribe to, it's a clear sign they aren't interested in my money.

I see absolutely no problem with paying for what I watch; financial constraints aren't the issue. The crux of the matter lies in the user experience, which is undeniably superior and hassle-free on the open waves of the digital ocean.

I'm planning to make a seedbox with AirVPN running 24/7 on a Pi. I've been a big leecher for a while now and I want to give back to the community. Fuck streaming services, if I can't own the product after I bought then it's not worth buying.

For me it's a price and convenience if we talk about media streaming.

If we talk about games - I am playing on Linux and Alan Wake 2, which I recently pirated, is selling on Epic Games and this store has no Linux support at all. Steam has, but this game is not on Steam. If it were on Steam I'd have probably bought it.

When the world is either ad-supported or locked behind a paywall or, worse, both, this is what will happen.

Source form the EUIPO since it is not linked in the article: https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/publications/online-copyright-infringement-in-eu-2023

Yeah, because it's easier and cheaper to open up the stream.io app and watch whatever I want whenever I want, than to subscribe to multitudes of platforms of which the majority of the content is garbage.

Because if there was even one large streaming service that wasn't going through shitification for profit I wouldn't turn to the high seas.

Just one. Untill then I'll pay creators directly and pirate the rest.

We paid for streaming networks but our rural internet was too shitty to stream, so I'd torrent everything instead. Now we have good internet but all the streaming services are too expensive to sign up for. Just like the old days, the only available solution to see what you want at a fair price is piracy.

Yeah increase prices due to piracy losses, I'm sure that won't cause even more people to pirate

Back? Baby I never left

Hoist the colors!

what a trash article, that honestly sounded AI generated. depriving humans of their journalists income.

Also piracy isn't illegal in many countries. for example in Australia it's a civil offence that must be persued in the courts by the company that alleged the offence occurred.

I downloaded new content for the first time in a while, recently. It's on a streaming service that I don't want (I pay for several).

I'd only been downloading things that I couldn't stream (* Cannibal Holocaust*, for example) for a long time. I stopped downloading for a number of years. Guess what? My bittorrent client still works. After a number of years buying everything on blu-ray discs (and ripping to Plex) and renting from streaming services, I'm on my way to where I was. I'll still pay for convenience. I'm done fucking around with complications.