(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles)

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    “It’s expensive, but I still want everything, so I pirated it. Seems pretty justified.”

    Look, I’ve pirated a ton in my life, but this whole “This is actually a noble pursuit” is such a load of fucking horse shit. We want something and don’t want to pay the price that is required to get it, so we take it. The best part is “preserving” it, because we all know that when this guy is done playing, it will be deleted and he’ll never think of it again.

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        2 months ago

        This is a much more honest answer, one that I also agree with.

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      Totally agree. The self aggrandizing, “hero of digital media preservation” thing is getting a bit ridiculous.

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        Aggrandize deez nuts bro. And being a hero of digital media preservation is only one of the myriad of reasons to pirate, such as

        1. Not accidentally signing away your rights to sue Disney due to forced arbitration when you avail a free trial of Disney+

        2. No drm

        3. Puts economic and financial pressure on the studio to keep games cheap

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          1. I’ll eat my hat if that turns out to be a working defence for Disney, so as a reason to pirate, it’s pretty feeble.

          2. Duh?

          3. Hardly. Hollywood is breaking box office records every other month, and the pirating community is very, very small compared to the larger population. Have you looked at video game prices lately? Movie ticket prices? Theyre out of control, seemingly not bothered by piracy in the slightest. Studio lawyers are going after piracy because they have nothing else better to do then pursue every point of revenue increase they possibly can, including going after the small fish.

          But you forgot the biggest reason…It’s free.

          The large majority of people who pirate couldn’t give a shit about “digital media preservation”. Sure, people all have their own reasons, but to the other commentors point, most people are gonna delete shit right after they listen/play/watch it. Storage space is expensive.

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      Also not true, i seed in i2p

      And also, leechers help in media preservation as well. The more copies there are of media, the more likely it will be preserved well into the future. Even if they dont seed now, just having and spreading copies of media definitely does help in media preservation