Piracy Really Can Be Justified

[@thelaughingmanofficial]

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

[@hd-be7di]

No more buying or owning... it's all renting now.

[@MtFoxt]

​@@hd-be7dii mean physical media exist that's buying and owning

[@hd-be7di]

@@MtFoxt There's almost nothing left on physical media it's all cloud based online account pay forever or lose your stuff.

[@akyhne]

I bought Tenet on Apple's platform, for $25. Now, I can't access it anymore, without a subscription. And if they remove the film from the platform, it's gone for good. I went back to buying films on Blu-ray.

[@masentaja8344]

Very well said.

[@EverywhereAtOnce801]

It's not piracy. It's Archiving off-line without being asked. It's a thankless Job!

[@MrSamadolfo]

Yup, I'm recently finished downloading my entire GOG Library to my local nas hard drive. It came out to 7TB of space 😄

[@gwgux]

Exactly. One of the things he didn't mention was that content can disappear and reappear later asking you to buy it again. Like how Disney takes their movies off the market, then releases them again later on in some new special edition packaging. That nonsense is why people keep what they bought in format they will always have access to it.

[@MrSamadolfo]

@@gwgux 🙂 yup, on GOG lego star wars is now delisted, dont know why

[@Dave102693]

Finally someone said it!

[@novoiperkele]

Yep. Lods of stuff not available any more due to woke crap.

[@the__daydream]

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" ~ Newell

[@HippCelt]

He's a bit of a hypocrite after all we can't inherit a steam library like you can a record collection or house.

[@Ross_Schmidt]

Maybe. I know if all movies were a $1, I'd buy everything even if I only thought I might want to watch it someday.

[@dsihacks]

He should maybe listen to his own quote haha..

[@happyputt9709]

If it is 1 dollar I would still pirate it because I don't like giving my credit card.

[@occamraiser]

Google sophistry.

[@elitemook4234]

More and more publishers expect people to jump through ever steeper hoops and pay monthly subscriptions for a software LICENCE that they claim they can revoke at any time for any reason they deem, and they call pirates the thieves.

[@MrSamadolfo]

Yes, technically its a lease, almost all video games are like that, consoles are going that way as well. You will own nothing and Love it.

[@occamraiser]

that's because the people using the product other than with the agreement of the owners ARE thieves

[@ApolloMcrib]

​@@MrSamadolfo you might own nothing, but I got it all backed up on 20tb of hard drives.

[@MrTheinfoman]

​@@MrSamadolfotbh people will find a way to crack it and find the games that is been released and dump it for archive of the software is not longer licence or abandoned then people have right to hack it and use it as public domain

[@bustergundo516]

​@@ApolloMcrib yes. Good idea.

[@Karagee2]

"Remember, pirating adobe software's is always morally correct."

[@Slickstaff_Stainpants]

they WANT you to pirate it for home use.. its so it becomes industry standard

[@Ross_Schmidt]

You're forgetting that companies and services are shutting down and taking your paid for online content with them.

[@AntiGrieferGames]

@@FerinaAryele Without Refundung, which makes way worse

[@Kirby7601]

and this is why physical media is better sometimes

[@GASTBF]

Which is why i never buy digital goods unless necessary UNLESS they're DRM free and downloadable. For music, i'm currently building a nice collection of vinyls to play. For movies, i still buy DVDs and BR-Disks

[@homosexualbiologicalmale--3]

buying ? what wrong with you

[@cap_eath]

I only movies I buy are DVDs. I'll rent a stream, but won't pay the "purchase" price. I'll probably only watch it the one time anyway. If I think I'll watch it again I buy the DVD. Someday I might get a Blu-ray player, but I've heard of them getting killed by inserting a movie with a virus. DVDs don't have this problem

[@gwgux]

Anytime I hear about, "programmers need to be paid to put food on the table", or "studios need to pay their staff", I remember how much money most of these companies have going in to them and how much of it does not actually go to the good people who do the actual work to make the game, movie, or what ever. I have zero sympathy for those companies. I do feel for the indie companies with very small teams just trying to make their way through the big shadows cast by the big companies, but they're the exception, not the rule, and usually are not the ones making thing hard on us to buy what they made.

[@jn2002dk]

True. So just pirate AAA content and pay for indie content. That's what i would do, except there have been no AAA content worth the bandwidth in years so i just stick to purchasing indie content

[@acarlton5]

But even then if I am a developer for a big company, it's okay to steal the content, because your stealing from a rich company, that trickles down companies will not lose their bottom line. They will take money out of their employees mouths before that happens, so I could lose pay or worse my job because you are spiteful of a wealthy company, and they don't make their bottom dollar, but it's okay. All I have to do is go work for an indie company that one flop could tank the entire company and I have no job.

[@Akab]

​​@@acarlton5working for a big corporation doesn't automatially make your job more stable, quite the opposite, as a code monkey, you would be easier to replace... Also: you're not a freelancer, it's not your job to serve or expect anything from your customers. Your employer is supposed to do that. Like, if I buy a brand logo for my new company, but said company fails, regardless of the reason, would I just be entitled to get my money back or pay the artist less for it? no. The employee just did their job...

[@needsLITHIUM]

yup, most of these companies have all their employees salaried, and expect 60 or more hours a week. If their employees just worked 35 to 50 hours a week, most of them would be making $30 to $40 an hour, but when they work 60 to 80 hours for the same pay, it's closer to minimum wage, and that's if your minwage in your state is $15 -- in a lot of places it's a LOT less. Anyway, where do all those profits go? Usually to the CEO and the other execs on the board, or to shareholders.

[@woodlanditguy2951]

If paying programers was true, why is it that FREE mods for existing games made by awesome people are often far better than the base game? Examples include: STALKER Kerbal Space Program Skyrim Minecraft X3 AP Star Wars: Empire At War 7 Days TO Die Fallout And the list goes on and on and on..... All the games I listed have VAST lists of FREE mods that can be downloaded from legit websites that can make your game exponentially better and add 100s or even 1000s of hours of content. All done by people that just love the game. Yet, big corporations still try to guilt people with the lie that "we need to pay our programers and producers"...

[@kn0wvuh]

Repeat after me! If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing!!!

[@Roxor128]

And if piracy IS stealing, then deleting stuff off someone's computer without a direct order to do so is property destruction.

[@spacegamedevsoftware]

Whenever this issue comes up, I always mention the famous Gabe Newell quote: "Piracy is not a pricing issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates."

[@iambossco]

"There's no profit in that". Why do you think JP Morgan quit backing Nicola Tesla in lieu of backing the THIEF Thomas Edison

[@christophervanzetta]

So that would be free, right? Otherwise what’s the point?

[@ThatWhichObserves]

@@christophervanzetta Free, if inconvenient, is only better if paying for it is as, or more inconvenient.. Piracy has become drastically more efficient than just *buying* a game.. but it has not become more convenient in others.. Modding some games for example without a valid steam copy is unreasonably inconvenient.. and for some people, modding the game is the whole reason they picked it up.. Sure you have the nexusmods and etc out in the ether, but what if the game you're playing only has mods on the steam workshop? you have to find a workaround to it which is painfully inconvenient, or actually own the game on steam at which point modding becomes a point and click adventure of your own whims and any inconvenience is a result of your internet service and hardware, not the game provider, or steam...

[@GASTBF]

@@christophervanzetta why would it be free? steam is the literal example of how a good service makes people ok with paying for games and content. This is why people ignore games that aren't on steam: because they're not on a platform that's actually good. I used to pirate a lot of games, but steam convinced me it was worth investing due to how good the platform is. Of course, i avoid new releases because they're always broken on PC but i buy tons of indie games every year thanks to steam and GOG. I don't actually mind paying for the content i find interesting as long as the platform that distributes it, is good.

[@PvblivsAelivs]

"Whenever this issue comes up, I always mention the famous Gabe Newell quote" Because it's just like plugging your ears, right? There is no merit to that quote. Even Steam uses the DRM that you have to log on to Steam to play their games. In order for your service to be "better than what they're receiving from the pirates," you have to ensure they are not receiving _your service_ copy pasted through the pirates. And that means anti-piracy technology.

[@dragonballjiujitsu]

Fun fact shortly after metallica sued napster I downloaded every single song they ever made, burned them to dozens of DVDs and handed them out at college for free on the bargain that they would in turn upload and seed all of it for at least a month. I'd like to think I costed them at least a few $$$. Last I checked at least a few of those torrents are still alive and active.

[@galaxys8-ml]

That's hilarious. Good work👍

[@GoolagThemTube]

Some companies are literally asking people to pirate their stuff because of their terrible business practices.

[@thezfunk]

Kevin Smith and Dogma is one example.

[@GoolagThemTube]

@@thezfunk Sony and Adobe are two other examples where people can no longer use the stuff that they already paid for.

[@bippaasama]

I'm a pirate, always have been. Having nothing to eat but hardtack while out at sea and getting scurvy from lack of vitamin C has been a problem though.

[@MrSamadolfo]

🙂 yup me too, Ahoy Mi Mateys Ahoy! 😄⛵

[@occamraiser]

Buy your software and some Limes. You'll be a better person.

[@KimJongUn_DPRK]

@@occamraiserNo.

[@mr.electronx9036]

yarrrr

[@enforcerridley158]

Considering what Sony pulled with Discovery, Piracy of Sony is justified.

[@Eyevou]

That is discovery's fault, my guy. Discovery wanted to charge more, sony said no, people rebelled, sony paid the asking price, and you blamed sony.

[@utubepunk]

​@@EyevouSony should have done a better job of negotiating / creating the original contract so their customers wouldn't be screwed over.

[@Eyevou]

@@utubepunk It's okay that you don't understand how licensing works but don't be naive.

[@whohan779]

@@Eyevou Bro, people literally lost access to their stuff. Even if Sony couldn't "negotiate better", they should've at least partially refunded the purchases. Like 80% refund of $300 paid is still better than d*ck nothing.

[@Eyevou]

@@whohan779 I reiterate it's okay to not understand licensing. Direct your anger appropriately tho.

[@logiclust]

I have zero scruples about ripping off companies that make a practice of ripping off their customers.

[@mr.electronx9036]

AMEN

[@The_Conspiracy_Analyst]

As soon as I realized none of these companies would hire me despite me being more qualified than 95% of their employees, I lost any and all sympathy and respect for their "rights". Why should I respect a private social club that treats me like $hit?

[@sebastiancanalesgarcia]

the resolution restriction and the limit of users watching at the same time is what made me stop paying Netflix. They're basically charging more for less

[@MrSamadolfo]

That was always the plan. 😄

[@needsLITHIUM]

the only reason I have a legit netflix account is be cause it comes bundled with my mobile phone service.

[@MrThebigcheese75]

I no longer have or miss Netflix. But the 4K only on four streams was very annoying? I'm glad they made me realise I don't need them. Shame others didn't so much?

[@zeeksthegoblin7564]

I remember buying PC Prince of Persia 2008. It didn't have DRM. You could even play the game without the disc. It was really awesome to buy the game and get playing without worrying about DRM stuff or having to get the crack.

[@MrSamadolfo]

😊 yup, I have all the old titles that are available on GOG, all are downloaded, all are drm free, the game i personally prefer is the one you are talking about, its available on GOG, Prince of Persia 2008 by Ubisoft Montreal, I like it cause its easy, your GF saves u when u fail a platform jump

[@shadowopsairman1583]

gamecopyworld

[@GASTBF]

This is why i prefer to buy on GOG when possible. DRM free games are a relief and i' amazed the platform is still alive to be frank. I was certain it would go bankrupt before 2024 due to its market share being really low.

[@MrSamadolfo]

agree, its strange tho even now in 2023 you dont really hear people promoting gog or mentioning that the games are drm free and shareable, its like taboo to mention such things, also I never hear anyone mention preloading a new gaming pc with a few gog games to get the new gamer ready to go, strange @@GASTBF

[@sleepingiv]

It's sarcastic to see WINDOWS KEY BUYING STORE sponsoring a PIRACY IS JUSTIFIED video . 😂😂😂

[@WayneWatson1]

Microsoft is fine with those sites. Just means more data for them to steal and sell.

[@EasyGameEh]

yeah, these keys aren't legit even if working

[@WayneWatson1]

@@EasyGameEh if micro$oft had an issue with the sites, they would have shut them down 10 years ago

[@KellicTiger]

@@EasyGameEh Umm they probably are legit. Its just that the bulk order that was generated was not intended to be sold like that.

[@KellicTiger]

Yeah MS is getting their chunk of cash on the license purchase. I suspect that they don't care as long as a sale was made. Its not as if its a keygen where they aren't making a sale.

[@cackoocacho1629]

It's just baffling how it's come to this. How stupid humanity is, to keep giving away what little control they've had in the consumer space, in exchange for minor convenience. If you are a pirate, yesterday, today, tomorrow, I couldn't care less at this point. These companies are the worst pirates of all.

[@Paulzpc]

One of the funnest lines I heard when people were on Limewire downloading music and software was, you're stealing don't you feel bad about that?, you wouldn't steal a car would you? and the response was if I could there would be two Jaguars and a Porsche out in the driveway.

[@Wampa842]

If property theft worked like piracy, the seller would still have both the Jaguars and the Porsche that they could still sell to someone who was willing to pay for it in the first place.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

As a Linux user I'm perfectly happy to pirate photoshop until Adobe give me the official option to pay for it.

[@cheeseburgersuperior1874]

i had to ask. arch?

[@christophervanzetta]

Not a linux user but that’s a valid argument. Nothing beats Adobe and I’ve tried a ton of alternatives, free and paid

[@notjustforhackers4252]

@@cheeseburgersuperior1874 Fedroa. Can't be arsed with Arch.

[@ashleyvandermerwe6527]

Spot on! Companies forget why they exist - it's because of their customers, not despite them.

[@KellicTiger]

I have no qualms about pirating. The lack of DRM on music can be directly attributed to the rampant pirating of music in the early 2K's. Most folks forget how insane the DRM was in the late 90's early 2K's. Up to and including lockouts from playing a CD on a PC. I stopped giving a single shit about pirating movies and TV shows after back in 2010, I think, I was on Netflix. I watched the first few episodes of Stargate Atlantis, logged off, then back on later that week and it was gone.........This crap has only gotten worse over time. Now not only does content move to each damn studio having their own service but now they outright remove content never to be seen again. Disney is the worst offender but WB is right up there. Enter: Plex. Part of Plex was the afore mentioned issue, but also when you have 5K DVD/BR's filling an entire damn room, it becomes an issue. I have so much content at this point it is borderline impossible I will ever watch it all. That said it isn't as if I haven't given all the studios a huge chunk of cash.....I sat down and crunch the numbers on the amount of money I've spent on VHS, DVD, BR, and Amazon digital content over the decades. (That I all buy and rip.) Not kidding when I say I could by a BMW. It is easily midrange 5 figures. All I know is I have content that will probably never see the light of day ever again. pepe le pew is a perfect example.....I agree with folks who HATE the behavior of this character. But put a disclaimer on it, not remove it outright. There are MANY other examples of this where content just goes poof. Or the director or studio feels the need to dick with a release putting out a new edition. *coughs*Lucas*coughs* I consider my Plex system as much archive as entertainment center. And frankly it's the equivalent of a baseball card collection. Do I need 8000 movies and 600 TV shows spanning from Roundhay Garden Scene of 1888 to The Velveteen Rabbit released a few months back? (At about 68TB of space being consumed.) No. I just like the idea I have the equivalent of Star Trek's LCARS. It has EVERYTHING. So if someday I'm watching something on KZbin and they reference an obscure movie.....go to Plex....have it. Watch it. Perfect example of this: Hawk Jones.....I went out and purchased the DVD and ripped it. I now have this unique movie in my collection. It looks like the content owner is burning DVD's on a per order basis. Someday they will stop that and that content may no longer be available. But also: I cut the cord because of paying for content I could not give a single crap about. Now that all these studios have taken their ball and gone and built their own streaming service....we are EXACTLY back in the same situation as cable. I'm not spending $15 a month on A single service just to get one show. Where the combined total would be fast approaching $100 a month for 25 shows I want to watch on and off. No. When Netflix was licensing from everyone I could subscribe to that service and have everything.........No longer. So these studios, outside Sony who smartly stayed out of these streaming BS, can all F right off.

[@ykalon]

At least it looks like we will get a few streaming services merging. I think HBO is merging with Discovery, and Paramount with SkyShowtime. Plus Disney is merging with Hulu.

[@Code7Unltd]

>outside Sony who smartly stayed out of these streaming BS Wrong. Sony Pictures has Crunchyroll.

[@MrBratalis99]

I cut the cord to flow tv years ago, and now I'm cutting streaming services off too. I refuse to pay all that money, just to sit and wait for an episode each week. STREAMING = BINGE WATCHING.

[@soulstenance]

Yes! This is so on point! Take notes big tech! You're shooting yourself in the foot by making software/media so inaccessible. Another reason to pirate content is when media simply isn't available for purchase in your region, just because. It's so annoying.

[@fvrrljr]

*my hat off for naming Louis Rossmann because he's been covering this many times*

[@2012stang302]

People should start cancelling their streaming services that gouge. Thats the only way theyre going to learn a lesson. Boycott. Software companies needs to stop gouging. Again boycott. Dont buy from them.

[@rodh1404]

There's another point about piracy you only briefly mentioned. People have to believe the price is fair, or even a bargain. If they feel they are being ripped off, they are much more likely to turn to the high seas. DRM even comes into play with this, because if someone purchases a product, then they will want to use that product on all of their devices. If they can't do that, then it's likely they'll feel ripped off, and once again the temptation is to turn to piracy to solve their problems.

[@Ieonblack]

My parents have recently been pissed about Netflix gating their login behind an ip wall since they aren't married anymore. Shit is annoying even to normies

[@markdonalds7735]

Honestly so many companies are getting very greedy implementing a monthly payment system for all of their products .. there’s an engineering software that was 300$ one time payment when it’s first launched,, now it adopted the monthly bs system and it will cost users 2700$/year so yeah piracy is justified against corporate greed .

[@only4posting]

Devs, studios, companies... everybody wants ALL the money. Not a little. Not a lot. ALL the money. Look at sony/etc, during the first days of psn. 'Ohhh, the digital items should cost much less. There's no longer a retailer... a store... a warehouse... no, it's just psn-->purchase--> user." Well, today, digital games cost even more than physical ones. Even 10yo call of duty games are still being sold at 50 bucks or more ! Then, the software... 2 decades ago, you, as a company, had to create your app. Had to package it. Send it to so ne retailer. The retailer had to buy several copies... had to display them... had to store them... had to advertise them, had to pay for ads in the newspapers, magazines, etc... had to keep all the customers and sales records... had to package them, and pay for the delivery service... the package could then be lost... could be stolen... etc etc etc. And let's not forget the electricity... water.. rent... for that store... 2023, the same software: - the devs/ company make the app - they create a simple online store, (great 100% free solutions do exist) , upload their app to the catalog (with a side database with serial numbers) , and that's all folks - the app can now be sold 10, 10'000 or 500'000 times, for no extra cost - if the app has many bugs, the company will fix only a few, won't listen to the features requests, and will later sell a v2 update, or a full v2 upgrade That app could easily be sold for, eg, $49 , because there no longer are all those fees, like rent, transportation, etc... but the devs/ company decide to sell it for $499... or you can also rent it via a $22 monthly subscription ! They will sell tens of thousands of copies, and will make millions... and one day, they find our their app has been cracked, and it's the end of the world. Now, they will start whining, because they are making less sales because of the evil pirates ! When in reality, only 1000 or 2000 people will use the cracked version, compared to the +100'000 legit sales. Greed..greed...greed Software development.... gaming industry.... all the same

[@Kemical_Head]

It really sucks when a game or service requires you to be online in order to play even solo.

[@JR-uy2nd]

When pirating content is easier and more beneficial for users than paying for content, the industry seriously needs to pause, look at its methodology, come together and resolve the situation.

[@occamraiser]

I paraphrase "If it is easy to steal then it is legitimate to steal" - Do you even pay for your groceries if the shopkeeper isn't looking?

[@christophervanzetta]

@@occamraiserEveryone needs food, we don’t need content 😂

[@DKTronics70]

@@occamraiser What if those groceries came with a mandatory sign-up to a store account, you the buyer can only eat them, and you can only eat a few at a time ?

[@Nevakonaza.]

I'm usually anti piracy, But with the crap companies are pulling lately such as Sony just on a whim taking away peoples purchased movies etc, Along with Lionsgate (in the UK) suddenly deciding they're going to pull their service BUT only in the UK its getting annoying, People WANT to pay and support the industry but they're making it very hard to and wonder why people resort to piracy..

[@needsLITHIUM]

I had a drum virtual instrument for making music, and the DRM was so annoying that I ended up pirating software I already bought and paid for just to use it. There have been several instances with single player games requiring constant online checks, where I bought the game on Steam or wherever, and then just installed a crack as if I had pirated it so that the game would actually be playable above 20 fps, or for older games so I could play on a widescreen. Then don't even get me started on Amazon and Sony rescinding movies from users that were PURCHASED because their contract with the publisher ended, and they didn't give a refund. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.

[@AlphaMachina]

People pirate video games because more and more they're being made to where you can only play them online. But the pirated version of the game has a patch within the crack that makes it so you can play the game at any time. Even for some games that I've purchased that otherwise require an internet connection for a single player game, I cracked them so that I can play them should I ever end up without an internet connection. Something that happens fairly often in my home state due to hurricanes and storms.

[@theaninova]

Blu-Rays are the worst kind of spitting in your paying customer's face scam I've ever seen. The audacity to take your most valuable paying customers, the ones who've paid by far the most, and force ads and anti-piracy threats down their throat and then forcing them to use a very specific player and a very specific display is just mind blowing. The file size of Blu-Ray files by itself is probably enough of a copy-protection mechanism when it comes to giving it to friends and family. But it's like they just laugh at you for being so stupid to buy a legal copy instead of pirating it.

[@crtxdistortion657]

Of course picacy is about money. The money the producers imagine they are loosing from lost sales. If people can't afford a product, or are finding it too expensive, they will look for less expensive options. Or find a way to pay less...

[@DarkLink606]

A reasonable analysis, I agree on most points. On music specifically, in my humble opinion, KZbin, with all of its own perks, is what actually killed music piracy. During iPod's heyday, many users just download mp3 for free and copied them to their iPod (or cheaper MP3 player), rather than buying from Apple. Currently, the quickest cheapest (and legal) way to listen and share a Metallica song is searching on KZbin and listening, which is quite ironic in hindsight. There are other music streaming services, of course, but that's mostly because they offer better UX, no ads, high sound quality and, most importantly, affordable prices and all music anyone could listen.

[@masentaja8344]

I'm 50 and I still pirate whatever I can.

[@Frank-Thoresen]

In the country that I currently live in all streaming services are geo blocked or has a seriously limited catalog. What choice do I have if not piracy?

[@GrumpyCat97]

also legit gamers suffering because of Denuvo, by eating performances, while pirates enjoying games with full performance

[@galaxys8-ml]

Spyware?

[@GrumpyCat97]

@@galaxys8-ml no, it's basically heavy DRM

[@TabalugaDragon]

Don't want people to pirate? Then *allow people to download it and save it on their computer* Why would I prefer paying for a service that cuts off my ability to watch the stuff I love when copyright expired or when I'm offline if piracy gives me a capability to save what I love forever?

[@ryanzer0170]

The problem is these publishers and distributors that can strip you from your legally bought content. Case in point, the recent discovery fiasco. Also, get banned from xbox, psn etc.? You'll lose all your content. They don't ban you from just accessing newer content, they completely prevent you from accessing what you've already bought.

[@peted31bgn]

Funny after watching this video I just got an email from Amazon prime that they are going to place ads to their shows. To cut costs. Unless I wanted to pay $2.99 a month for ad free streaming. Thank you very much.

[@ynyslochtyn]

Who never had a tape cassette with a recording from a friends vinyl LP back in the day?

[@TechCowboy]

How about Sony giving the finger to the customers who PAID for TV series and are removing it from their servers.

[@CyberCPU]

That story broke after I filmed this video but you're right, that's another great example.

[@MK-of7qw]

"Take what you can, give nothing back."

[@davinp]

Piracy will never be completely elminated

[@regwatson2017]

It's not even partially eliminated. It is bigger now than the days of Napster. It's just you don't hear about it because companies have pretty well given up trying to scare people from doing it. When was the last time you heard of some home user being prosecuted for movie or song theft ?

[@surnimistwalker8388]

As a veteran of the Napster days, "Welcome to the party."

[@JamieStuff]

DRM has done more to promote piracy than the original Napster ever did.

[@mjc0961]

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing. If you already paid for something and the companies take it away, piracy isn't stealing, it's reclamation. If what you want is literally not available for purchase, then it's not a lost sale if you pirate it. I do tend to pay for things, but if companies screw around - take things away, not sell it at all, etc - I have absolutely no issue pirating things. As Gabe Newell famously said, piracy is a service problem. And the service has been steadily getting worse over the past few years. I also _never_ subscribe to any content delivery services. No Netflix, no Spotify, nothing of that nature. I'm not going to pay these companies a monthly fee only to have absolutely nothing to show for it when I end my subscription. I buy things to own them, I'm not interested in rentals.

[@DavidM2002]

This reminds me of why I download KZbin videos. There is too much disruptive advertising that KZbin inserts into the videos. AND, some channels...cough, cough... embed ads into their videos which can be easily edited out. A bit of double dipping going on here. I like certain content which I download automatically with a virtual machine running 24/7 on my NAS which has a Subscriptions feature that skips the YT ads. And before you think I'm just some cheapskate, I send several hundred dollars to the publishers of my favourite YT channels and "free" software developers every year. This way, I know that my money goes to those people I want it to go to without a big chunk taken out by a third party.

[@cackoocacho1629]

3:09 Actually, I can. As I had a Creative Labs MP3 player which was roughly the same size, with 4 times the storage, and none of the draconian lockdowns that Apple garbage had. So, ya...........

[@nokodemusic]

The other thing that irritates me with Netflix, when you're browsing for something to watch it's just the same 10 shows over and over in a different order.

[@koijoijoe]

The limiting to 720p is absolutely aggregious. Also i kind of get get why bitrate has to be lower, but stop offering a 4k premium teir that looks like garbage. Either don't offer something thats supposed to look great but doesnt, or actually give it to people for paying extra. What really rounds out the failure that is streaming services, is the people making movies and shows are getting treated way worse now. Makes it pretty hard to feel like I should carry ALL of the guilt of not wanting to give my money to the streaming service, and supposedly the creators by extension. They don't even get statistics on their own shows. How are they supposed to know if they are getting paid fairly...

[@QUICKSILVER-kn4hf]

Bro you should advocate for piracy. It is good to share. These publishers with anti piracy measures are the bad guys.

[@eiviitsimoelda]

Once my friend bought a game CD, but we never managed to get it to work. Solution was to download a cracked version of this game and after unpacking it worked on the first time. No more buying broken BS.

[@kennethv5250]

according to one person at Microsoft 'windows 95 wouldnt have been as popular if it werent for pirates'

[@MrAlious]

i tend to pirate games. the thing is, if i enjoy the game i always end up buying it. if i dont like it i dont even finish it. there was a study about piracy in the movie, music and videogames insdustry. funny enough it was buried until someone enacted the freedom of information act. the fundings showed that piracy actually increases sales and only hurts the movies box office OPENING sales. you begin to wonder why the study was buried

[@stevenanderson3205]

If you wanted 1 song all you had to do is buy a 45 for .99 cent and play it on your record player.

[@azurekite3870]

um,he wasn't talking about songs on record at all

[@stevenanderson3205]

@@azurekite3870 I know i was talking about the way things use to be like he was and the way things have changed.

[@AdmiralBison]

Advocate for physical AND DRM-Free digital (like GoG) under the banner of *ownership* The Digital Rights Act needs to be enhanced to allow forever full ownership options.

[@Weston_Guidero]

Great points all around, I buy all my audio plugins now, however, I have had multiple times where even the audio plugins i bought were restricted by some ilok activation issue or moving computers and only having a limited amount of activations that i can no longer transfer to a new computer and have to have some old non exisitent company deactivate them (still waiting months/years later). So then I yarged them. Waves is especially good at making users want to pirate their software. Plenty of other examples where activation problems occur all across video/audio/creative software.

[@Niesmiesznyy]

Piracy is a business like any other, it's just that customers don't wish to be served

[@nerzeus]

Steam ended support for xp and vista in 2019 and is set to end support for win 7 and 8 in 2024 meaning at some point even games designed for those os will stop working on steam without alot of backend work on the end users part.

[@MrSamadolfo]

hopefully the workaround wont be too bad, we will see.

[@Paul_van_Doleweerd]

I still use win7, no point in going to win10 because MS is ending support for that next year and win11 won't run on the old clunker. So I'll buy off GOG and get the full download version, no drm, no mandatory internet connection, no BS.

[@MrSamadolfo]

@@Paul_van_Doleweerd 🙂 yes thats a good point

[@Safetytrousers]

I bought Cubase 5 legit and I have the dongle somehwere but I just can't find it. So I use a cracked version of Cubase 5, I feel totally justified doing that.

[@gordon3178]

In the uk when the bbc iPlayer first came out they had a system where you could download mp4 files of the content you wanted to watch and the files were copy protected you could copy the file to another device but couldn’t convert it to another format you had the mp4 of the content you want to watch and use it in any media player you used. You had the file for 7 days and when you started watching it you had 5 days to watch it and it would stop working as the license ran out but if you still had the mo4 files you could watch them again it the content came back on the iPlayer but they changed the system where you have to use there player to watch the content and done away with the mp4 downloads

[@only4posting]

That's 300% right ! Let's take 3 use cases: 1st one: videos (dvd, bluray). I used to have (and still do) a massive collection of +1000 dvds, and several hundreds of blurays. I absolutely wanted and adored having those physical discs that i can use anytime i want, and i also wanted to give money to the industry, so they can keep on making all those movies i adore. The problem ? Despite the manufacturing prices getting lower and lower, the industry kept charging a premium price. Then, second problem, i often watch my movies in 2 different languages other than english, depending who is around (foreign friends, foreign family members, etc ). So, as a movies fan, i was paying a premium for those discs, and those discs were basically worthless : no bonus, no nothing, and the worst part, weak-ass audio tracks. If you buy a movie for , eg, the italien, or French market, as a fan, who's paying a premium price, you should have the right to expect to find a , say, french, italien, etc 7.1 dolby atmos, master audio, etc. But no. For example, a french dude will buy a movie for the french are, and it will come with a absolutely fabulous English audio track, and a miserably poor french track. Absolutely 0 efforts made by the industry, for the fans. 2-Then, you have the video games. Up until 2005-ish, video games were about passion, devotion, etc, from a bunch of passionate devs, whose mission was creating the best game as possible, despite all the technical challenges. Everything was made, to please the gamer. Then, after the iphone was released, some studios, like the candy crush makers, were making hundreds of millions, each month, and it started attracting the venture/hedge/capital/etc vultures, with their suitcases full of trillions, and their hoards of money thirsty leeches, who don't understand, don't like, and d don't give a crap about video games, and only care about money. And suddenly, all big games started being made around.... MONETIZATION. It no longer matters, how fun, interesting, long, etc, the game is going to be, if doesn't matter if the characters are dumb and the main story is crap, and the world size was divided by 10... all that matters, is making sure the game will be filled with microtransactions, in-game purchases, season passes, etc, so the gamer not only pays 70 bucks for his game, but will have to use the credit card and spend another 300...800...or even $3000, in order to get the 'full experience'. You loved a racing game like gran turismo 6, on the ps3, with 750 premium cars and at least 300 or 400 'less premium' models ? Welcome to the new gran turismo 7, with only 410 cars, where a gamer will have to win a race 100 times, just to earn 1 or 2 $ worth of in-game cash, when a single 'optional' car the gamer can buy with real money can readily cost 10, 20 or even $40 (real $). Fuk those games, fuk this industry. 3- streaming. After countless advertisings, i finally decided to give netflix a try, as my first legit 'streaming' experience. I said to myself, screw it, i will pay 10 or 15 bucks, if i manage to watch like 10 movies each month, 10 -15 bucks will be fine. There are a ton of movies that i absolutely adore, from the 80s, 90s, 00s... all the old classics, etc... it's gonna be cool. So i enter my netflix card number, and voila, I'm subscribed. I search 'shrek' --> only number 2 was available. I search 'Sylvester Stallone ', or some of his movies --> almost 0 found I search actors like Schwarzenegger, jason statam, etc --> little to nothing found I search tens and tens of movies. 1 here...1 there... Maybe old series like the old MacGyver? Maybe Stargate Sg-1 ? Prison break ? Dr house ? And many others : basically nothing. I guess, netflix only has a few big titles, to attract the stupid idiot (like myself)... a few series... and that's all. Add to all that, the woke cancer, where it is impossible , eg, to make a movie or cartoon for 3yo kids, without inserting 2 dudes kissing and rubbing eachother's cocks , or a kid and his 2 no-binary/lesbian moms , who must buy a sex toy for their asexual neighbor's 2yo adopted non-binary/tranz baby birthday. Physical discs... video games... streaming... I refuse to give 1 single dime to this awful industry. I want to watch a movie ? In just a few minutes or seconds, websites like 'search extreme + download + movie', you can download up to .iso bluray images, 3d movies, everything ! Regarding the video games, there are over 20'000 titles, from older consoles like dreamcast, psvita, snes, genesis, atari, nes, n64, etc etc, where people can download a pc, android or even Linux emulators, to run all those games(roms), that we can download 1 by one, or even 2gygabytes packs with hundreds of titles. If i want to watch some series, there are plenty of websites that offer that kind of services, for free k just a few ads here and there). The gaming and video industry has 0 moral, 0 scruples, 0 dignity, 0 anything, regarding us, consummers/buyers. We are just a bunch of stupid walking wallets. Why should we care about them ? Why should we feel bad, about downloading a game or movie ? Let's not forget, since the internet became faster and faster, the industry wettest dreams are : making everything 100% digital/cloud/subscription based... where the user owns absolutely NOTHING. unfortunately, mainly because of the gen-z, who want everything, not next month, not next week or day, not tomorrow, but TODAY, who don't want to move their ass and go buy their game from a local store, and prefer getting everything online, because of them, the digital sales in video games were only a few %, a few years ago... today, it's already over 60%. It's just a matter of 2 or 3 years, before people can no longer buy a physical game, from the local store. The more the digital sales grows, the less physical games will be made and sold. By 2026, the digital games sales could be over 90%... and the next playstation 6 and Xbox 2 could be ... 100% digital- only ! When i buy a game, like dead Island 2, farcry 6, god of war ragnarok, etc, on the ps5, i buy the physical version. But while i buy the physical version, probably 70 gamers bought it from the online store. It's a list combat. At least, by downloading my stuff, i won't be giving my money to those greedy companies. People shouldn't feel bad for downloading a fukin movie for free. Shit, when apple sells a $1200 iPhone, that probably only cost them $200 or less to manufacture, package, etc, where are the scruples, the morals, etc ? You can even expand the storage capacity, by adding a $20 sdxc card ! When the industry charges a premium for a device, talks about climate change and how they save the planet by not including a charger... but then, only offer a 24, or even 12 months warranty, where are the morals, the dignity, the respect, the scruples ? The industry wants to do something for the planet ? Why not starting by.... offering a standard 5 or 6 years warranties ? How many billions of electronic devices are thrown away, because the 24 or 12 months warranty was over, and it was too expensive to repair off warranty... with a 5 or 6 years warranty, those billions of devices would have a much longer life...! Which, of course, the industry doesn't want ! Yes, it's time for people to STOP feeling bad about downloading and watching a 'pirated' movie... or downloading and playing a +20yo video game ! The entertainment industry doesn't respect and doesn't give a phuq about us, so... why should people care ! For the 2 people who will read my rant, thank you, prayers will go to you, intelligent people !

[@utubepunk]

Complains about wOKe cANcEr 🤪🤪🤪 then proceeds to lie. Is that you, Steven Crowder?

[@LupusYonderboy]

I will never understand why companies keep trying to protect their products with DRM and such, only to frustrate their actually paying customers, when it's been clear as day for ages that there'll always be people who'll make a great effort to and ultimately succeed to crack these mechanisms. It's more difficult with the always-online scheme, sure, but that's also the ultimate turn-off from buying such products. If I can't buy a game free from DRM and always-online garbage, I simply won't buy it. There's more than enough games to play. I'll watch playthroughs on KZbin before supporting such anti-consumer tactics. If I pay for something that's not a rental or a subscription, it'll be mine to own, and do with it whatever I want. And the argument that piracy takes food off the tables of people who make these products, I laugh at that. Almost all of these people are underpaid and overworked at the expense of their greedy overlords.

[@AkatsukiLink]

Sailing the Sevens Seas is a must today. DRM, Denuvo,, etc. We quit cables a millions years ago because of their pricing and all, yet, the streaming companies are doing the same as cable and give another reason to sail the Seven Seas! Yes, I do pirate games, especially the one with DRMs, but mostly I downloads games to try them and if I don't like them, I just delete them and voilà! No money wasted! And also, sailing the Seven Seas is a must, especially for media preservations! Lots of physical medias are on the way out, sadly. And one more thing, everything is becoming a subscription service.. "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" -WEF

[@cheeseburgersuperior1874]

ironically, that how actual pirate came to be because empires didn't respect and provide good services to their people.

[@boshytf]

I am a gen z kid, But when i was younger, i pirated windows 7 and like every black ops game, Because i never had enough money, Truly the good old times

[@niemand7811]

You know what people do when they can not pay shit? They don't get the item until they can pay for it. Being "gen z" is no excuse for acting stupid.

[@coinbongo4694]

Recently alot of great animes (one punch man, code geass, Magi: simbad , and more) got licensed at Hulu and no where else. Hulu does not stream to New Zealand where I live. So they basically naught the license and made it completely unavailable for me legitimately. I wonder why piracy is getting more pronounce 🤔

[@raylopez99]

Back in the day the price of software was 10x what it "should have been" and one theory was it was because the software producers assumed a program would be bought by one person and shared with another nine.

[@scroopynooperz9051]

" 'Piracy', for lack of a better word, is GOOD. Piracy is right, piracy works. Piracy clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Piracy, in all of its forms; piracy to save a couple of bucks, piracy for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And piracy, you mark my words, will not only save all of us embattled tech enthusiasts, but the major malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much." -Long John Gekko

[@saadalareqi1569]

If I don't own my legally purchased game then pirating isn't stealing. It's reserving my games

[@maxtrue9744]

I want games, music, and software that comes on physical media that I have the rights to use forever.

[@azurekite3870]

well if they are dvds they sadly won't last forever

[@arghyaprotimhalder5592]

​@@azurekite3870transfer to NVME

[@MrSamadolfo]

plastic doesnt last forever, i suggest purchasing a temperature controlled Vault, also make backup copies of the discs onto NAS Hard Drives and stash those in the vault as well.

[@arghyaprotimhalder5592]

​@@azurekite3870in past i purchased DVDs and CDs for music and movies i saved them later on HDD.

[@kenshyura]

I love this kinds of videos too Rich. Very good stuff.

[@JeffElms]

You didn't mention Disney's "Fast Play" that they used to put on their DVD's. It was unskippable trailers and ads that would automatically play before your movie as soon as you put the disk in.

[@unpronouncable2442]

if buying is not owning then piracy is not theft.

[@GuildOfCalamity]

Economies can be self-balancing, if cable TV providers start charging too much then that's when people start stealing.

[@Benn-eu8wg]

Netflix be like is this man threating us

[@DeNNiiiable]

Issue is also that a tv show you just started watching might disapear before you are done because of licence issues. now who ever holds the licence next will require you to sign up and give them money. If it was a service that had everything for like $50 that would be great or where it limited you to 10 movies, or 10 seasons of shows from non core services, for example like "netflix one" will have all of netflix + everything from other services but limited to a sertain quantity for each external service tie in. for steam you can get games from other publisher but it does the stupid thing that installs another launcher only to run it for 5 seconds before it launches the game. so something like that but without making you have a account of tie in services or force you to leave the enviroment and run a different app.

[@charleshines2142]

I still remember when Netflix sent DVDs out. I wonder how many people ripped them before sending them back.

[@sbrazenor2]

I used to love those old commercials where they were like, "You wouldn't steal a car!" I was like, "You don't know me motherfucker!" The fact of the matter is, I look at digital content as completely valueless. If I can make a copy of something without paying for it, why would I trade money for it? I would rather spend that money on hardware. I can spend my money on terabytes of hard drives, and network attached devices to view my curated content. I can watch all of the content that people pay money for, while not paying a dime for any of it. I can listen to any music I want, including things on release day in FLAC quality, all without actually spending money on it. I can play whatever video games I want, read all of the new books that come out, etc. In the past 25+ years that I have been using some method of piracy - I have probably saved about as much money as I spent to buy my house. If I could obtain physical objects with the same ease and impunity, I absolutely would do it. All of that being said, I am not anti-capitalistic. I'm just not going to spend money on streaming services, just like I don't spend money on cloud storage, or anything else that's ostensibly just using someone else's computer. In the current era, where i can have a laptop with a multi-terabyte nvme drive in it or a terabyte MicroSD card in a phone, the idea of using streaming for inferior content seems pretty stupid; and especially when you add the cost component of it.

[@H96-d6j]

What organizations don't understand is that pirates are NOT going to buy your product, and that's why they pirate it. This could be treated with: 1) Availability of free "demo" versions of the products. 2) Purchasing in installments - people will glady pay 5 dollars/month for a 50 bucks game if they can pay it in 10 times, plus companies can charge more without losing market. 3) Product ownership for the costumer. 4) Actual tech support for the product - right to repair.

[@acesontilt77]

Proud pirate from the BBS days and IRC channels. #Neverstop.

[@MrSamadolfo]

😏👍 2400 Baud Rate

[@acesontilt77]

@@MrSamadolfo We were hot stuff when 56.6k came along!

[@MrSamadolfo]

@@acesontilt77 😏 then 14,400 came around LOL

[@spamaccount1071]

Day 2 Hi Rich, Can you help me solve this issue? "Windows server Installation has failed" Error This happens when i almost install the windows 11 and then goes back at the home screen and shows that error i mentioned before. Can you make a video to solve this issue? I would appreciate your help!❤

[@xnonsuchx]

Apple/Steve Jobs was also instrumental in getting record companies to back off DRM for music files. And I actually downloaded some MP3s from Amazon in the early days and they were such horrible quality that I stuck to iTunes versions. Maybe Amazon is better now???

[@hameddesign70]

what about me ? im willing to pay money but USD to our currency ratio is too high and their websites are blocked in our country :|

[@martektv]

well, if I pay to watch it in theater... then once the digital copy is available, ill download it, rewatched it and enjoy it. No questions ask! hahaha

[@idan678]

how about the gta iv that i paid for cd a few years ago and can;t play it because you need activate server that rockstar decided to shut down

[@joshkinderfortnite5851]

Merry Christmas

[@randomriddle539]

I don’t care even if it’s illegal if it benefits me

[@nightshade1487]

I have a few paid for games with dlc`s that suddenly don't work because they say the game is to old(mass effect 1 2 and 3)

[@CrazyHades5516]

If downloading KZbin videos to my system and putting them on my phone is piracy, then guilty as charged.

[@bds-ro5hb]

How about purchasing a Microsoft Office forever licence only to have Microsoft stop supporting the software and then if you need to reinstall it for some reason you can't activate it which means it won't work after 30 days. Is that piracy?

[@chrisgraver2112]

No clue lol - my office is pirated and works fine

[@jamesburke2759]

It would be cool if they just had some sort of local store that you could just walk into and pick the movies you wanted to watch. like a physical netflix.

[@highlandermccloud3594]

This issue I have with places like Apple store is the quality of the download you are paying for. I have purchased some songs from them and I have complained they are all lossy. None of theirs are over 320bps. I use FLAC with at least 800bps+. I hate having all the CDs I have, but at least they are wave files with proper quality and I can rip them to FLAC and have decent sound. Yes you can hear the difference.

[@ford1546]

There is a big difference between illegal copying of films and programs and what (Louis Rossmann) talks about which is (Netflix)

[@politicallyincorrect4452]

I am a pirate and very proud of it, got tired of getting screwed out of purchases I have made in the past just to have to pay for them again...there is nothing people can say to me to make me feel guilty about it either. Modern game consoles are the worst for this, making people rebuy games console after console.

[@rdsii64]

I sail the seven seas and have no shame about it. I won't give my hard earned money for a worse experience.

[@brianbuddy2ACP]

The creator of steam once said "Piracy isn't a pricing issue, it's a user experience issue." What he means by that is people get a better experience via piracy than they would if they went the legal route. For example, Louis Rossmann once talked about how he paid extra for Netflix in 4k to watch a TV his date wanted to watch with him, but since he was using it on a Linux home theater PC for it, it purposely limited him to low quality, 720p video. To get full quality, they force you to use a smart TV app that collects your personal data. However, if he had pirated it, he could have gotten 1080p on his Linux box. So essentially, it doesn't matter how cheap something is, if you give people who pay a worse experience than those who pirate, people are going to pirate it. Steam creator also said "The way to stop piracy is not by putting anti piracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a better experience than what they're receiving from the pirates." I'd say that if you get a worse experience if you go the legal route, piracy is not only completely justified, but a moral duty.