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When purchasing isn’t ownership, then piracy isn’t theft.
That’s why it’s legal to carjack rental cars.
If you’re able to make a copy of the car, then sure. Otherwise, no.
There was nothing about that in the original quote. That’s like a completely different conversation.
Yes, there was. “Piracy” in this context is specifically the unauthorized copying of data. Carjacking has nothing to do with that.
In this and every other context, renting exists. And in this and every other context, the fact that someone rents you something doesn’t mean you are allowed to access it for free. Renting a movie or a videogame isn’t purchasing, doesn’t mean you are allowed to access it for free. Renting a car isn’t purchasing, doesn’t mean you’re allowed to take it for free.
Copyright issues aside, the slogan I reacted to is just plain wrong.
Should I swap Audible for Steam and start another flame war? Is there a poll widget on this thing?
Based xkcd
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I’d pay for it once to support the creators. Once and once only.
But think of the shareholders? How can they afford that 8th yacht?? 🛥️🛥️🛥️🛥️🛥️🛥️🛥️
After I paid Metallica for their music, more than once in some cases, and then they went to war on us fans, been stealing since.
PSA: Download all your kindle books. Even if you don’t plan on cracking their DRM, you’ll have the option to in the future should you want to.
Though do it before the end of the month! Amazon is taking that option away
Wednesday the 26th, not the end of the month. If anyone is thinking they’ll get to it later, you have three days from this post
Thanks for catching that
Bandcamp was acquired by Epic, but they still offer DRM-free downloads of all your music, give artists good cuts, and if you buy on Bandcamp Friday, the best cut any artist could hope for. I’d rather there was a distributed solution without a corporation taking a cut off the top, but it’s still getting you pretty close to the artist.
I use audible, but remove the drm with Libation.
Libation is your friend.
The most recent book I pirated was What If? 2.
I have DRM-free versions of How To and What If?.
They’re made of trees.
I really like physical media. Thing is, I don’t have the space for shelves upon shelves of physical media.
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For me the bulk would be music CDs. Those aren’t even that nice as physical items …
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Feel like it’s too arduous to pirate music these days
Qobuz and Bandcamp exist. You can buy drm free music from there. Head over to !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com for free options. It’s not that hard.
I just rip my songs from Spotify. It’s not the highest quality, but it’s easy to find stuff and I wrote a little script to quickly download lists of tracks and albums so it’s pretty convenient.
I rip them from youtube, that way I don’t have to log into anything first.
Arduous?! Why you little…
In the AOL days, I got on newsgroups and hunted songs. Good luck finding what you wanted. Then I’d download 6-12 pieces and use software to tack those pieces into a single MP3. At 56K. (Really 53K, at best, and that was with tweaking modem strings and whatnot.)
I repeat: Why you little…
53Kbps was what you got? Psst, damn younglings. In my day we reached 8Kbps speeds and considered ourselves lucky if our moms didn’t want to call anyone…
Try Soulseek, it has just about everything.
And that’s why Bandcamp exists. No DRM, whatever format you like and you support the artist.
Oh man. One time, at band camp…🐈⬛ 🪈
Yes? Did something happen at band camp?
Plus prices on there are lower than basically everywhere but amazon, and amazon doesn’t really count because they only give you low quality MP3s
Let’s hope the new owners won’t destroy it.
I saw someone on YouTube pissed that they bought 700 ebooks from Amazon and now that they enforce a harder DRM he can’t read them anymore.
Bruh, you voted with your wallet to get DRM in your ebooks. You can’t complain if one day they change the encryption
But I didn’t think the leopards would eat MY face?!
I think we have to thank people like this for demonstrating that losing your collection isn’t just a theoretical risk.
The vast majority of the public hsve no idea what you just said.
Their brain goes “I like book. I buy book! No more book? But I buy book!”
I agree, but I also sort of think that’s fair enough. The fact that most people “buying” ebooks don’t understand what their transaction implies suggests a major market failing.
I fully believe that if you paid for something, it gives you the right to go pirate another copy.
Always knew xkcd is a bro
Support creators though. Especially if the thing you pirate isn’t from a soulless corporation. This is why creators should always have something like a ko-fi or Patreon page. So I can pay them directly if I enjoyed their work.
Dox them and send an envelope with cash.
I buy a ton of XKCD merch for this very purpose. I support others on Patreon, by buying from their advertisers and by buying their audiobooks on Libro.fm or a physical copy.
Amazon and other middlemen add nothing, they simply take a cut off the top. They maintain DRM solely to extract an maximum profits and lock in their customers and sellers. It is extortion and should be illegal.
I have to download pirated video games otherwise I can’t play them offline on my handheld. They also launch 10x faster. I learnt that you can’t use everything you own a copy of offline!
I use a mix of Goldberg emulator and GOG i prefer Steam though. Mostly for valves Proton compatibility layer and all that valve does for linux gaming. So if a game is drm free on steam i get it there.
Fuck denuvo tho that shit needs to die in a fire.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought everybody was making a big deal over Civ 7 getting an official release because denuvo doesn’t work on linux?
I read people saying the lack of denuvo made the linux version the best version just for the fact that it’s the PC release without denuvo?
Did I misunderstand?
Which handheld, and what are 3 examples of games that launch 10x faster?
