What's up with people on the piracy subreddit always talking about how they pay for stuff. your on a piracy community and they talk about purchasing digital goods? I don't get it. New piracy gen ? : piracy


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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I pay for a service to not get letters with a bigger value than I pay.
Also I save money and for some of my friends as well.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Sometimes if I pirate a game and the game was actually pretty good, I will go ahead and buy the game after. I do it less often now that we have steam. As an example I pirated ghost trick years ago as it was only for the ds and I didn't want to buy a ds. Later the game became available on steam so I bought it.

[–] Jaeger86@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I like having physical and digital media, and usually digital media is locked to a site that and a lot of my blu rays to burn them would take more effort than I realized so I like to obtain both

[–] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

There are times when I just but the app/service to support the devs (mostly small devs). Eg for Apps I have bought: Nova Launcher (long back and don't use), PowerAmp, MiXplorer Silver & Pano Scrobbler.

Could I get them for free? Definitely yes. Did I ever used Pirated version of them? Yes, of course.

[–] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Most of us are presumably adults who can afford to pay for things when they're convenient. That's what it's about for me, convenience. If you're not making it convenient for me to buy your thing fair and square, then I'm gonna pirate it.

[–] shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Pirate some things, pay for some things. It doesn't have to be absolute.

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Its the feds! They are in here trying to guilt us because they know no other way to make us stop. May the redcoats end up in Davey Jones Locker!

[+] TheObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com -7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Ye it's wild. They also say they only pirate X or Y or do it because of Z. Like are you a pirate or not bro? You're either in or not. I pirate everything I possibly can. That goes for small indie companies up to the AAA guys, small film companies to box office. ALL OF IT. I always got downvoted for saying it too on a PIRACY sub! Shits wild.

Edit: Even on lemmy my point gets proven 🤣

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

That depends totally on the reason you pirate stuff. What are your motivations behind pirating? There are probably a ton of different reasons people do it. I often see people bragging about it so I guess fragile masculinity is a main factor in pirating as well. Or like another commenter said, it could be to experience freedom.

To me, it seems like a political act to pirate stuff from large corporations but pay money for indie media and small creators. Just like I would shoplift in large supermarket chains while I would never shoplift in a small family-run store.

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