Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

My wife refuses to let me pirate books for her. She wants to support the authors she reads, which is fair. But she decided she wanted to try the Harry Potter books, and asked me to pirate them for her to make sure JK Rowling didn't get a penny out of her.

Nearly everything is priced in dollars and I'm too fucking broke and Brazilian to pay the asking price most of the time.

I periodically delete my Metallica collection so I can re-download it for no other reason than fuck Lars.

If there is an indie game that I like I will buy it

Yeah. I refuse to give cuts to amazon, spotify, netflix etc.

If I pirate something from a not super rich artist and I really enjoy it. I’ll send them an email and propose to transfer them some money to support them. I don’t want spotify or amazon or google taking a cut.

Pirate away but... i would simply still not listen to any music made by a nazi. Plenty of good songs out there NOT made by a nazi.

I never needed any moralistic reason to pirate.

I am the High Priest of Kopimism. Download from where you want, and go in peace my child.

Of course. I stand on high moral ground when I chose to pirate.

Economy is broken and anti-consumer. Piracy if the only way I know to balance things of. If I wouldn't be pirating I would just be letting those economic bullies take advantage of me.

And specially with cultural products there's another big reason, as I think human culture is to be shared, not sold. I do actually think is inmoral to prevent other humans to freely access anything that could be considered cultural.

My piracy is probably equal parts sticking it to greedy corpos and me just not wanting to pay when I can get it for free.

Yeah I pirate all the games that:

• Require an internet connection
• Use Denuvo
• Require a dedicated launcher
• Require a connected account

If you're going to make the paid experience significantly worse than the free one because you want to implement anti-consumer BS, go fuck yourself

Honestly there's so much wonderful art out there not created by Nazis, I don't know that it's worth the energy to pirate Nazi music.

I totally understand the moral pirate argument, I just don't have time to enjoy all of the games, movies, and music from artists I support. To waste what time I have engaging with content from people I find morally repugnant is just not where I'm investing

Which Kanye song?

Ripping off Jeff Bezos is a moral imperative.

See, that’s the thing. I don’t listen to music by Nazis.

Personally I won't even download it, I even deleted music ive had for years because the artist went maga. And let my daughter use the CD in some arts and crafts, because I can't listen to it anymore.

That said, yeah, I'd prefer to download over buying if I didnt want the company or artist to get the money for it.

Pirating Andor bc Disney+ is on the BDS list. One of the best shows I've ever seen but I'd sooner drop it than violate the boycott, even if money was no object. As things stand, piracy is the only ethical way to watch it.

Yup, if you use Denuvo for your games, you can fuck right off

If it can't own my media, I'm certainly not going to pay for it.

When I wanted to revisit Harry Potter via audiobook, I pirated the books, and I will do it again someday.

Eh, it's kinda down to personal perspective. In mine, absolutely a reasonable way to handle things if you love the art, but don't feel morally comfortable supporting the artist.

I recommend people pirate Enders Game, because fuck Orson Scott Card.

I mean free is nice but I seed because fuck the system and upload stuff because it's suppose to be available to all.

A system that allowed one to pirate corporate American made or distributed content while being able to give back directly to creators would be nice.

You should download it to a personal media server and stream it to your phone if you want to enjoy piracy the modern way.

Nah I'm just poor

If I had a better situation though, I would pirate for moral reasons

Yes I do this all the time for games

If he has turned Nazi then I probably wouldn’t both to listen to them anymore.

Downloading and listening can still indicate an indirect form of support. Up to the individual, but I lean towards this guy being as canceled as possible, recommend rerouting any efforts to listen to this towards searching for some new exciting music.

Absolutely. Chris Brown is a prime example. I quite like some of his collab tunes, but I absolutely refuse to give any money - a percentage or not - to that wifebeating spunktrumpet.

In fact, the fact that I'm actively screwing him out of money makes me enjoy the song more.