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HaijoI partially agree. If there is a way to buy the media in a way that actually makes it yours, then you should buy it.
Subscription services are crap. So if there's an album I want, I go to the store and buy a CD.
Most people find that too much work, so the people that want to own stuff often resort to piracy. And most normies just use streaming services.
If a pirate gets a better experience than a legitimate customer, the company doesn't deserve your money.
But if a company or individual goes out of their way to give the user the best possible experience, you should have some respect.
Bandcamp doesn't use DRM, when you buy a song or album, you can download it in any relevant format whenever you want. GOG only has DRM-free games afaik.
Netflix, spotify, microsoft (cause gamepass) and many other companies are the incarnation of evil. Online ads shouldn't exist.
Subscription services are crap. So if there's an album I want, I go to the store and buy a CD.
Most people find that too much work, so the people that want to own stuff often resort to piracy. And most normies just use streaming services.
If a pirate gets a better experience than a legitimate customer, the company doesn't deserve your money.
But if a company or individual goes out of their way to give the user the best possible experience, you should have some respect.
Bandcamp doesn't use DRM, when you buy a song or album, you can download it in any relevant format whenever you want. GOG only has DRM-free games afaik.
Netflix, spotify, microsoft (cause gamepass) and many other companies are the incarnation of evil. Online ads shouldn't exist.
@Haijo7 which is why I said "Support only who deserves it."
ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)@Haijo7 @gianmarcogg03 Qobuz sells all of their music DRM-free and has a huge selection. They're my go-to now (I mostly listen to classical music and tend to go for HiRes when possible/affordable).
Morgan ⚧️@Haijo7 @gianmarcogg03 are there a lot of huge artists on BandCamp? Bc I was under the impression most of the ppl selling music on there fall under the category of "small indies" in which case OP wasn't advocating for pirating from them. I think in general, anyone who makes their stuff easily purchasable in a non-predatory and libre way is in the "who deserves [support]"
❄️ freezr ❄️It is piracy against tyranny... it's fine! 
alcinnz@gianmarcogg03 I say: Please favor artists who don't enforce DRM on you! That's how we'll get change!
YouTube's a very funny one here, I don't think most people publishing there care about the arguments over whether YouTube is DRM...
Once I've found artists, I find I enjoy their stories more than most the stuff Hollywood spews out...
yakkoj 🦊@gianmarcogg03 piracy is an act of reclamation, full-stop. It is frequently the only way some content out there can be consumed now. Of course, that it's not legally available is the fault of dorky corporate bastards like Ubisoft and Nintendo.
You'd think they'd learn from the copy protection arms races of the 1980s that DRM is a cost and a waste of money. DRM still exists and pirated copies are frequently BETTER.
Carlos SolísOption B is a full boycott, but you’re still too addicted to popular culture to actually go and do it
WiredBun@gianmarcogg03
i agree but i also think its kinda bullshit to try and moralise piracy,
like if you want to take something just take it dont try and make out like doing it makes you a good person.
be good when you can, otherwise just do what you want
Kevin Karhan 
@gianmarcogg03 That's why I think everyone should have #HDCP-stripping Splitters and #HDMI-Recorders!
Latte macchiato 
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[ARCHIVE] Komi :3@gianmarcogg03 Well i always pirate shit as long it's possible and yeah ublock origin is a fucking life saver. i never was caught on pirating media which is still suprising but nowadays i have some vpns to use (expect to some private trackers ofc.). I may can't find german content because of fuckers but as long i can do english, nobody is stopping me!
Miakoda 
Lazy Town | You Are A Pirate Music Video
Will 
@gianmarcogg03 best post today so far. Thanks!
Echo ΘΔ 
@gianmarcogg03 if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
Flesh 🐀 
@gianmarcogg03 Least verbose leftist meme.
mkb
Dr Know@gianmarcogg03 Piracy is their term for it. We call it sharing.
And sharing is caring.
And sharing is caring.
0x4d6165 (Julie or Mae)@gianmarcogg03 just whatever you do don't use the soulseek chat function
@0x4d6165 scary people are there.
sounddrill 
@gianmarcogg03 I think what anime publishers did by moving to youtube was a big brain move because
1. They get proper statistics, ad revenue(since a lot of anime piracy is done through piracy sites and telegram)
2. They likely get more money than through crunchyroll, Netflix, etc(or so I'm told)
Alexey Vazhnov@gianmarcogg03 , why do you use "NC" licence for the poster? 🙃
@vazhnov because no one should make money from this post, just like no one should make money from pirated content. If you wanna pay, support who actually made it (if you think they deserve it), we just want free (as in freedom and I guess also as in gratis) ethical sharing.
@gianmarcogg03 , why I'm surprised:
1. I thought that "Free software movement" is the best friend of a pirate, because it has similar purposes and it is legal. There are "four essential freedoms of free software", and "NC" makes your work out of all this amazing movement.
2. You are probably interested to spread the message as much as possible. Is it bad, for example, if someone **sells** t-shirts with your message?
@vazhnov if you earn money through piracy, you're in the wrong and giving corpos free ammunition. Also this image would not be very good to put on a T-shirt, it's way too cluttered and designed for a 16:9 canvas, if I made a more appropriate one I would surely use another license for it.
billy@gianmarcogg03 the word to encapsulate it all: "enshittification"
lain, author of the quixote@gianmarcogg03 even if your target is a 'small indie' piracy does no damage
hexaheximal@gianmarcogg03 If you do want to support the companies making the content though, buying it on physical media is the best way to do so - they can't take that from you, after all. And then back it up afterwards, of course.
I am probably addicted to libdvdcss at this point...
bomberfish@gianmarcogg03 Also, you gotta own your physical property to own your digital property. No use getting drm-free stuff when your OS enforces its own DRM. Just look at Apple, who doesn't let you install software on your own device that hasn't been vetted by them.
Witix 
@gianmarcogg03 Gianmarco once again being based and reminding me to turn on Transmission to seed stuff in the background 🙏
masukomi@gianmarcogg03 I'd add that it's not only morally correct to block ads but that being able to is part of the design of the web. Web sites have no control over what the client will render. Search engines don't ingest ads, and you wouldn't want them to. blind people don't see them in their browsers, command line browsers don't see them.
Layout and visuals simply aren't relevant in various contexts. We're SUPPOSED to be able to choose what we see of a page and how we display it.
@masukomi I'll bring out a logic that I once read somewhere: since our web browser makes requests to the server we're connecting to, rather than the server pushing content to the browser, "blocking ads" isn't even the right terminology as we're simply not requesting the ads. I hope I remembered it correctly...
@gianmarcogg03 this.
but it's actually worse than that, because you request ads, but then the process proceeds to pass your request around like an advertisers gang-bang so that they can all get your data & impregnate you with their cookies even though you only made 1 initial "request" for an ad.