Which seas do you avoid?
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Software. 99% of the time there is some Free Software alternative that either somehow does the job for my personal tasks, or is better anyways.
FOSS for the win 😁
Or you have to run a shady crack or keygen to get it to work, and I don’t trust those.
But …their catchy 8bit music!
I can hear KMSpico in my head already…
Indie games. Tremendous respect for indie devs.
Same with some exeptions (when i cant afford it or when its very complicated to buy or if i had it and (insert game store here) removed it from my library)
So there is a thing I kind of pirate, but not entirely – e-books.
But thing is, our public library page has e-books and some of them are available to be read online. Now I cannot officially download them, however opening a network tab on browser console shows me a request to download the whole
.epubfile. So what I do is copy that request ascurland just download it via terminal.Is it piracy, probably, is this resource publicly available for me to read, definetly yes.
Other than that I don’t really pirate much else.
I wouldn’t download a car.
i refuse to pirate indie games. i will always buy games that are independently released or from small publishers because 1. they’re just trying to break even (unlike publishers like EA and Activision who have millions of fans lining up to buy their repetitive junk) and 2. they almost never have DRM. i’ll also buy my music for similar reasons; 99% of artists can barely make a living and i really do not want to contribute to that statistic
My wife likes to watch Disney +. Thus anything that comes out on Hulu / Disney + / ESPN bundle we will watch through traditional means. If I can purchase a show or movie legally and retain ownership I will watch through traditional means. On the flip side anything that was once on Hulu/ Netflix but is not anymore we are gonna pirate. Anything that airs on a streaming service that forces you watch within an app with ads we are gonna pirate. Anything that airs on Netflix after its password sharing crackdown we are gonna pirate. Any show that airs on streaming service that did not before but now has ads (I am calling you out Amazon) we are gonna pirate.
Anything that is an executable on PC (software / games) due to security risk. Game ROMs for emulators are fine.
Same
Nothing nowadays.
I’ll pirate indie games, see if it like it and if I do - I buy them to support the developer.
Similar with ebooks, I pirate them, read and if I like it. I will buy the physical book to support the author.
Windows antiviruses. It’s not wise to use a cracked program that’s supposed to protect you from malicious cracks/downloads…
Video games, because it’s easier to do it legally. If it was as easy for other media, I would do it that way.
Pretty much anything that I can buy easily without going to second-hand or stupid subscriptions. For me, it’s really a service problem, not a cost problem.
nothing
It’s not that I won’t but I do try to go out of my way to support smaller artists I enjoy, especially nowadays.
Lucky it’s gotten a lot easier with sites like Bandcamp, but it’s better if I can buy directly from the bands own store.
Stuff that I can buy for a fair price and use without many restrictions. For example DRM-free games on GOG or itch.io
i try to pay indie devs whenever i can
Food for thought. If you have decided you were never going to buy the game, what’s the harm in pirating it
If you were never going to buy it, why pirate it?
Because if you’re selfish enough you can enjoy the game at no cost to you guilt free.
I’m just pointing out the facts here.
