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I mean I was a Nintendo fanboy when I was young. I have a switch now and owned N64, GC, Wii. Me and my RL friends lamented not being able to pirate. Sure there are people online that are anti piracy but I think they are actually a vocal minority.
Them and people profiting from copyright are the remaining percentage.
I spent a sizable chunk of my childhood playing SNES games on emulators, it is thanks to both piracy and preservation I got to have the experience. I actually respected Nintendo back then and had a Wii with a small stash of retail games. Well, I still have the Wii but it’s softmodded and has a 16 GB SD card full of games and homebrew but since Iwata died so did my respect for Nintendo. Imagine paying for P2P multiplayer and near absence of cloud services.
Nowadays I only get devices I can mod and customize by any means official or otherwise. If I wasn’t a full time student and I had enough money and time to spend I’d get an OLED Switch to mod and play all sorts of stuff, it could be a nifty tablet to both work and play with.
None of these things above are possible without piracy.
Louis rossmann has been pirating board schematics since before he did board repair in a basement, since apple likes to make them so inaccessible. On some of his streams you can even see the watermark of the site he pirated them from on it xD
I’m surprised he hasn’t been imprisoned for copyright infringement. Using pirated schematics for a repair bussiness surely would’ve triggered law enforcement to shut him down, wouldn’t it? Or is this somehow bypasses DMCA because of the first amendment? I don’t know how laws work as I’m not a lawyer
I bought Terraria and Geometry Dash just to support the devs. Also some Valve games as a reward to them for pouring so much effort into the Linux ecosystem and contributing all their improvements back to it.
I can’t find very good data on this, but my suspicion is that PC piracy rates are lower than they were a decade ago. I’m betting piracy of movies and TV shows is far, far higher than it was a decade ago. It’s pretty easy to see why. If you want a PC game, you can usually (EGS timed exclusives aside) buy it from your digital storefront of choice, or add it to your wishlist and wait for a sale. Once it’s in your library it’s effectively there to stay. Game doesn’t work on your PC, or you don’t enjoy it like you thought you would? No problem, you can refund it. Now compare that movies and TV shows. An ever-expanding range of streaming services that all want $15 a month from you, region locking, staggered release dates. Nothing new you want to watch this month? Too bad, your $15 is now our $15 dollars, and we’ll take $15 from you next month too. Movie and TV show piracy provides a more valuable and convenient service, so it wins hands down.
I feel fine paying $15 for a game because I could spend hundreds of hours on it and it might have more replayability and allow me to play with friends and family and online. Paying $15 for a month worth of shitty content that is region locked and doesn’t think I’m the rightful account holder leabes a bad taste in my mouth.
And it always works, unskippable ads for other new releases never pop up, and it doesn’t just disappear when another platform gets the syndication rights for the next quarter.
I feel like most people agree with this, most people who really hate piracy have a stick up their ass or really like money. I mean even alot of artists and indie devs are fine with a little piracy as long as they get enough money to make a living.
I’m okay with him being over the top. If he didn’t always put his money where his mouth his, I might feel a bit different but these are issues he’s put his entire life and a ton of his income into. He’s very much earned his right to be an angry New Yorker in his videos
He’s one of those people who have a hard time recognizing the line between “being honest” and “being rude”. That’s not a disqualification though, we all have our quirks.
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He also continues to stick the boot into Spez and Reddit to this day.
Why is this news, 99,9% of society says piracy is ok? Has anybody in your life ever reproved you for saying you downloaded a movie, game etc?
Some people say piracy is theft and I’m just like: 🙄
Have you ever been a Minecraft server admin? Have you ever been in a Nintendo fan space? These places really hate pirates
I mean I was a Nintendo fanboy when I was young. I have a switch now and owned N64, GC, Wii. Me and my RL friends lamented not being able to pirate. Sure there are people online that are anti piracy but I think they are actually a vocal minority.
Them and people profiting from copyright are the remaining percentage.
I spent a sizable chunk of my childhood playing SNES games on emulators, it is thanks to both piracy and preservation I got to have the experience. I actually respected Nintendo back then and had a Wii with a small stash of retail games. Well, I still have the Wii but it’s softmodded and has a 16 GB SD card full of games and homebrew but since Iwata died so did my respect for Nintendo. Imagine paying for P2P multiplayer and near absence of cloud services.
Nowadays I only get devices I can mod and customize by any means official or otherwise. If I wasn’t a full time student and I had enough money and time to spend I’d get an OLED Switch to mod and play all sorts of stuff, it could be a nifty tablet to both work and play with.
None of these things above are possible without piracy.
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Louis rossmann has been pirating board schematics since before he did board repair in a basement, since apple likes to make them so inaccessible. On some of his streams you can even see the watermark of the site he pirated them from on it xD
I’m surprised he hasn’t been imprisoned for copyright infringement. Using pirated schematics for a repair bussiness surely would’ve triggered law enforcement to shut him down, wouldn’t it? Or is this somehow bypasses DMCA because of the first amendment? I don’t know how laws work as I’m not a lawyer
I’m not 100% up on USA law, but wouldn’t this just be a civil matter?
Yes.
Rossmann is becoming more based by the day.
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He’s doingthe right thing. Whatever he uploads - he justifies it. And I usually agree with him.
Personal rule has always been I don’t give a fuck about major corps profits.
However, if I pirate a game I like, I pay for it. Simple as. Support devs, especially indie.
I bought Terraria and Geometry Dash just to support the devs. Also some Valve games as a reward to them for pouring so much effort into the Linux ecosystem and contributing all their improvements back to it.
Same way I do it. If I enjoy Stray or Winrar enough or long enough, I always[1] buy. Even bought a Sylenth1.
[1] Fuck yearly repackaged sports games, Adobe etc.
It took me 8 years to finally buy a Total Commander license
Now my window has my name, easy to dox myself lol
Lol fuck winrar. 7z is better, free and open source.
I agree 100% 7zip is the shit. Just the old “buy Winrar” joke, ya know?
Theres like a RarReg Key floating around in the internet which activates WinRar forever.
Ah I’d consider it if I weren’t using NanaZip (win) and 7z(Linux)
With demos making a comeback I see pirating of games becoming even less of a ‘problem’.
Yeah man agreed, demos got me to buy quite a lot of games recently. Metal: Hellsinger, new system shock, just to name a couple examples
I’ve discovered his channel this year, and he seems really based. Many great takes on the tech industry and its relationship with society
here’s the link on oddysee: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/why-i-will-never-pay-for-youtube-premium:b
What’s Odysee?
It’s a youtube alternative, works by using some protocol similar to torrents
I’m with Gabe Newell on this one. High piracy rates indicate a service problem.
I can’t find very good data on this, but my suspicion is that PC piracy rates are lower than they were a decade ago. I’m betting piracy of movies and TV shows is far, far higher than it was a decade ago. It’s pretty easy to see why. If you want a PC game, you can usually (EGS timed exclusives aside) buy it from your digital storefront of choice, or add it to your wishlist and wait for a sale. Once it’s in your library it’s effectively there to stay. Game doesn’t work on your PC, or you don’t enjoy it like you thought you would? No problem, you can refund it. Now compare that movies and TV shows. An ever-expanding range of streaming services that all want $15 a month from you, region locking, staggered release dates. Nothing new you want to watch this month? Too bad, your $15 is now our $15 dollars, and we’ll take $15 from you next month too. Movie and TV show piracy provides a more valuable and convenient service, so it wins hands down.
Steam is just better than piracy. With video they made piracy the attractive option again.
I feel fine paying $15 for a game because I could spend hundreds of hours on it and it might have more replayability and allow me to play with friends and family and online. Paying $15 for a month worth of shitty content that is region locked and doesn’t think I’m the rightful account holder leabes a bad taste in my mouth.
If I had to put those 15/month somewhere, it’s Gamepass
And it always works, unskippable ads for other new releases never pop up, and it doesn’t just disappear when another platform gets the syndication rights for the next quarter.
“Video games are art and everyone everywere should have access to art” - A guy on youtube on the topic if piracy is bad
I feel like most people agree with this, most people who really hate piracy have a stick up their ass or really like money. I mean even alot of artists and indie devs are fine with a little piracy as long as they get enough money to make a living.
I don’t think it’s OK but I don’t care about corporate interests.
It always is.
I think more along the lines of “copyright isn’t ok” rather than whether or not actions that happen outside of it are or are not.
Rossman has never not been based
Sometimes I find him a bit over the top, but yes, he is always based asf.
I’m okay with him being over the top. If he didn’t always put his money where his mouth his, I might feel a bit different but these are issues he’s put his entire life and a ton of his income into. He’s very much earned his right to be an angry New Yorker in his videos
He’s one of those people who have a hard time recognizing the line between “being honest” and “being rude”. That’s not a disqualification though, we all have our quirks.