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

  • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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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.