@GreenMario@lemm.ee
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Yeah sorry the point of piracy is to be a cheapskate. If I’m gonna spend money might as well buy the damn thing.

Speak for yourself. I just want to own the content I buy. And I’ll happily buy it from my seedbox provider if streaming services won’t sell it to me.

Its absolutely not the point XD

@GreenMario@lemm.ee
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Lol piracy isn’t a fucking political movement. It’s a “I want free shit” thing and that’s OK! we don’t need to justify shit to some stupid moral standards.

@sederx@programming.dev
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It’s a “I want free shit” thing and that’s OK!

you dont decide that

Chewy
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Netflix, Disney and Amazon limit the bitrate and resolution on Linux. Amazon is often at 540p or so.

That’s because of DRM, which they use to prevent piracy. Guess what, they lost a paying customer because of their terrible service.

Indeed, many pirates only want free things, but there’re many other valid reasons to pirate. E.g. I’m paying for energy, storage, a usenet provider and indexers. Though I agree I’m going the cheaper piracy route instead of buying Blurays and ripping them myself.

@abbadon420@lemm.ee
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For some it is. It used to be a point for me. It still is a factor, but it is no longer the main point. Service and convenience is the most prevalent point for me right now.

What it comes down to for me is that I don’t want to subsribe to and pay for 7 streaming services to be able to watch everything I want. I had gotten used to Netflix being the primary streaming service which offered “everything” (it didn’t but it was plenty). I stopped being a pirate in that time. Then every asshole company pulled their shit from netflix and started their own streaming service. That’s when the convenience stopped and I went back to priacy. Funny how that works, right?

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