What's your opinion on piracy?

[comput3rus3r]

I think everybody has the right to privacy!

 

[snails1221]

I think everybody has the right to privacy!

Reread the title one more time

 

[bodefuceta]

It's okay if doing more good than harm. Hard thing to generalize.

I firmly believe, however, that all form of DRM should be broken and de-incentivized. Users should be free to run software as they see fit.

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html

 

[RustInPeace]

It's good, it's life. It's become a hobby now with music as I'm rebuilding a music collection I lost over 5 years ago.

Less to censor there than my various video collections. I don't really pirate games, unless emulation/ROMs from older generations counts. I tried to play UMK3 on an SNES emulator last week, but I ragequitted because I couldn't get my PS4 controller perfectly optimized for it (namely not being able to use diagonal directions). Movies, music, software, no restrictions there.

 

[JellyPerson]

I think everybody has the right to privacy!

No, you aren't funny,

 

[garyopa]

I think everybody has the right to privacy!

yes, we should all have the right to 'privacy to pirate' in our homes, without our doors being kicked down at 5am by ICE or whomever is in your country raiding you while you sound asleep in your parent's basement!

 

[Subtle Demise]

If you have ever picked up newspaper on subway and read part of it, you are a PIRATE

If you have ever took a look at your wife's or girlfriend's magazine or novel and read a few pages, you are a PIRATE

If you have ever read a whole chapter of best-selling book in bookstore and then walked out without buying it, you are a PIRATE

If you have ever bought a movie ticket, walk into another cinema in the multi-plex for movie you didn't purchase originally and watched more than 10 minutes of film, you are a PIRATE

If you have used google search to find an image, crop it, rotated it, flipped it, and then used it someplace else like for your GBATemp Avatar, you are a PIRATE

If you have ever copied more than 5 paragraphs from a website, google search, paper and used it in your write-up on 'any subject matter' in school or for your job, you are a PIRATE

..... (there is ton of examples, in anyway shape or form, somewhere, sometime, someplace, you have been a nasty PIRATE, and will be forever doomed in life to be so!)

Or use adblock on any website, download video from a video host without watching any ads, fast forward through the commercials on a recorded TV show, etc.

 

[JellyPerson]

Technically getting things in the public domain for free would be piracy because you aren't "supporting" the people who still print those works

 

[garyopa]

Or use adblock on any website, download video from a video host without watching any ads, fast forward through the commercials on a recorded TV show, etc.

yeah, i currently have 462 videos on my laptop, i used one of those 'downloader' plugins in firefox to rape off youtube so i could watch them again when either A) don't have internet, or B) my super-low monthly download caps are reached! -- sorry, google/youtube i am a PIRATE!

 

[Condarkness_XY]

Piracy is something I avoid. I don't want to pirate anything, especially when you realize that this is someones work that they put countless hours into. However, there are sometimes no choice to made. I'm talking about games that require English translations. can't read Japanese, so when a game doesn't get localized, and is really good/or really wanted, what do we do?? An English translation comes out, and is only available to pirated copies. So now I say fuck it.

 

[Uiaad]

Technically getting things in the public domain for free would be piracy because you aren't "supporting" the people who still print those works

Piracy is generally defined as unauthorized use or replication of something ... so by releasing it to the public domain it becomes authorized use sooo ... Thank you for playing and you go home with ... a brand new brain cell

 

[garyopa]

Piracy is generally defined as unauthorized use or replication of something ... so by releasing it to the public domain it becomes authorized use sooo ... Thank you for playing and you go home with ... a brand new brain cell

Yeah, like this case:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-...0-000-pages-of-pirated-jstor-81684193816.html

Poor, Aaron killed himself over all this 'public domain' vs. behind a paywall shit. -- even universities can be pirates in their own way. -- what we need is new 'robin hood' to free us all, like the fact Bloomberg is going to be charging soon $34.99 to access their 'news', and 90% of what they write is just re-written 'quotes' from other free sources!

 

[SimonMKWii]

If you were to pirate an AAA game, than who gives a shit! Pirate away...
But if you pirate an indie, fuck you, you dirty freeloading cunt!

 

[JellyPerson]

If you were to pirate an AAA game, than who gives a shit! Pirate away...
But if you pirate an indie, fuck you, you dirty freeloading cunt!

Now that's a fucking meme.
Hello Games does not deserve money for No Mans Sky
Scott Cawthon doesnt deserve money for FNAF
....and those are the only indie games i can think of that fit in this description

 

[Kioku]

Don't care. Don't care about piracy. Don't care you do it. Don't care for your reasons. Just don't try to publicly justify it or you look like an idiot.

 

[pustal]

I don't like the term piracy, it was coined to demonize copying intelectual material without the will from the owner. But again, it's intelectual material, and software is as much and no more than an idea, a story, a poem, a song, a recepy, etc. I think that you should be able to protect your intelectual creations in secrecy or charades or criptography, etc, but if one has access to it, it's not wrong to replicate it or copy for himself, as much as if you have a good idea you should be able to protect it, but if you hear that idea you should be able to apply to yourself. What it is wrong however is to claim or uncredit ownership of that intelectual material or profit without permit of the owner.

 

[Kioku]

I don't like the term piracy, it was coined to demonize copying intelectual material without the will from the owner. But again, it's intelectual material, and software is as much and no more than an idea, a story, a poem, a song, a recepy, etc. I think that you should be able to protect your intelectual creations in secrecy or charades or criptography, etc, but if one has access to it, it's not wrong to replicate it or copy for himself, as much as if you have a good idea you should be able to protect it, but if you hear that idea you should be able to apply to yourself. What it is wrong however is to claim or uncredit ownership of that intelectual material or profit without permit of the owner.

Some heavy thought there. "Sharing without consent is fine as long as you don't take credit for yourself." Meh. Yes and no.

 

[SimonMKWii]

Now that's a fucking meme.
Hello Games does not deserve money for No Mans Sky
Scott Cawthon doesnt deserve money for FNAF
....and those are the only indie games i can think of that fit in this description

Digital Homicide doesn't deserve money for The Slaughtering Grounds.

 

[comput3rus3r]

Yeah, like this case:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-...0-000-pages-of-pirated-jstor-81684193816.html

Poor, Aaron killed himself over all this 'public domain' vs. behind a paywall shit. -- even universities can be pirates in their own way. -- what we need is new 'robin hood' to free us all, like the fact Bloomberg is going to be charging soon $34.99 to access their 'news', and 90% of what they write is just re-written 'quotes' from other free sources!

I'm pretty sure he didn't kill himself. he was suicided.

 

[Uiaad]

I'm pretty sure he didn't kill himself. he was suicided.

People who read this are now 2% dumber thank you

On topic :

The whole copyright system needs a complete overhaul, but it will never happen, too many big companies making too much profit