Which seas do you avoid?

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PC games. Too much of a worry about malware for that nonsense.

@salarua@sopuli.xyz
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i refuse to pirate indie games. i will always buy games that are independently released or from small publishers because 1. they’re just trying to break even (unlike publishers like EA and Activision who have millions of fans lining up to buy their repetitive junk) and 2. they almost never have DRM. i’ll also buy my music for similar reasons; 99% of artists can barely make a living and i really do not want to contribute to that statistic

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We’ve been buying stuff on bandcamp friday, it is pretty neat

ReallyZen
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DRM-free ebooks. I make a point of buying them, of thanking the publisher… And not sharing it on the usual piracy channels.

I extremely rarely pirate games and software. It’s just far too easy an attack vector for malware. The games I want to play are usually worth buying regardless, and free software is good enough for my needs. It isn’t a flat out refusal, I’ve definitely pirated these things, but it’s in niche situations where I need to see something specific, and I always check run it under a vm

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Video games, because it’s easier to do it legally. If it was as easy for other media, I would do it that way.

Software. 99% of the time there is some Free Software alternative that either somehow does the job for my personal tasks, or is better anyways.

Or you have to run a shady crack or keygen to get it to work, and I don’t trust those.

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But …their catchy 8bit music!

I can hear KMSpico in my head already…

TFO Winder
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monkrus FTW

@renard_roux@beehaw.org
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* cries in Adobe *

@Petter1@lemm.ee
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FOSS for the win 😁

Nothing.

@SethranKada@lemmy.ca
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Software and video games. I just haven’t had a need, and I like supporting creators. Only reason I’d download books, music or movies is because I absolutely abhor subscription payments and would rather have access to those things permanently. At least with software you can just find a free alternative.

Apps. I prefer foss apps. I donate, report, contribute and spread the word.

Even if I would pirate an app it wouldn’t become open source. I couldn’t contribute. I couldn’t report bugs, suggest ideas, fork and apply my own stuff.

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We’ve had a no piracy rule over in the Android subs/communities for years and the funny thing is, by time we ever got to someone trying to post a pirated APK the community themselves tore them a new arsehole.

Easiest rule to enforce when the community will absolutely hiss at you. Love em.

edit: a fun talking point I suppose is YouTube, and its app. We got a lot of people arguing that Newpipe ‘was piracy’ and I even had many debates with other members/mods about is it, or isn’t it piracy?

My view it’s a website that you can parse even with other tools like yt-dl, and if Youtube.com wanted to stop use of Newpipe / Revanced whatever they could in the blink of an eye.

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I had to ‘pirate’ geometry dash apk as only the lite version was on the play store. I’d already payed for the full version on Steam and iOS.

/home/pineapplelover
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I kinda pirated Spotify (xmanager). I believe Tidal is one I would actually subscribe too if I had the income.

JackGreenEarth
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I only pirate apps with no alternatives and very aggressive monetization like 100€/year subscriptions…

@HouseWolf@lemm.ee
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It’s not that I won’t but I do try to go out of my way to support smaller artists I enjoy, especially nowadays.

Lucky it’s gotten a lot easier with sites like Bandcamp, but it’s better if I can buy directly from the bands own store.

@HouseWolf@lemm.ee
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I’m sadly aware…which is another reason why I try go straight to the band/artist first.

Only the content that i don’t care about.

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  • On my mac, the little I pirate today is Microsoft office apps. Because fuck MS.
  • Most of the games I buy either from steam on sale, or cheap keys from g2a & co. I rarely get new games. I have little time for gaming, and have a backlog of games that could last me a couple of lifetimes already.
  • System utilities (firewall for instance) I buy
  • I go FOSS when I can.
  • Only thing I subscribed (and regret it, but the hassle to go rogue is just not worth it) is Adobe Lightroom Classic.
  • Last but not least, I pirated the hell out of the Nintendo Switch OLED though. Because Fuck Nintendo.
  • I’ve donated to indie devs for games I loved (whatever the platform, even if I ended up only playing them a bit).
  • I pirate TV shows and movies.

Do you buy firewall ?

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Apple will make you pay for anything apparently

@otp@sh.itjust.works
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Pretty much anything that I can buy easily without going to second-hand or stupid subscriptions. For me, it’s really a service problem, not a cost problem.

@SweetMylk@lemm.ee
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Nothing. But i usually buy games made in my home country. Trying to move the industry along.

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