Is paying isn’t owning, then pirating is just borrowing.
Edit : Oops …made the is, isn’t
You’re not really taking anything from anyone. They still have it.
You could say that you took a sale from them but if the only option is to purchase, they would not get a sale from me.
If they would have, they did.
They should consider piracy free advertising!
If you’re buying merch, they probably do. In fact, I think hbo said this about game of thrones.
God! What a time that was. 6 or seven years of hype for that show and the hype died as quickly as it ended.
It’s a good show, but it seems that the last time everyone was dialed into the same show.
Funnily enough, House of Dragon was better, but the hype was way less because the book it’s based on is much less popular.
I did not care for house of the dragon. I liked game of thrones a lot, but really did not enjoy house of the dragon.
Fair. I loved the book, great pseudohistorical relation. What bugs me the most is that Martin can’t ever finish book 6 of Asoiaf, and books 4 and 5 (especially 4) were pretty weak, and he suddenly wrote something like the Fire and Blood, proving he is not burned out, just fucking lazy bum.
Permanently previewing
Having recently set sail again after a more than a decade-long hiatus, I am definitely having a much better experience. All streaming services have been booted, and my TV has been disconnected from the internet. Replaced with a mini-PC running Linux and serving Jellyfin (and Freetube for accessing YouTube ad-free). Still have an active Spotify subscription, but I am already using it a lot less than before. Will be phasing it out as my music collection becomes more complete. Purchased my first albums from Bandcamp recently - first direct purchase of music in over a decade. Bad timing with the Bandcamp acquisition though, hoping it doesn’t go tits up, and if so - here’s hoping to a good alternative to get proper ownership over DRM-free music while giving me an opportunity to pay and support those musicians I like who are not already filthy rich.
For music you could try collecting Vinyl. No DRM can take that away from you.
What do you use to torrent? Do you have any recommendations to do this safely?
TOR browser and a decent VPN.
Personally use Nord VPN but guessing from how infrequently it gets recommend by folks on lemmy I’m guessing it’s not the best.
Tor is good but not practical for piracy, a VPN is more than enough. That said nord is quite a bad option. In general if a company sponsors in yt, its a bad product
Yeah I get the same impression from the general chatter but no one seems to ever say what’s bad about NordVPN. I find their software pleasing to use, the meshnet functionality saves me some trouble, and the speeds seem to be very high and it’s reliable.
There’s other stuff their marketing material speaks to that people can choose to believe or not, but the above is why I subscribed.
If folks ever shared good, verifiable reasons to not use them I’d certainly look elsewhere.
Also - what’s not practical about Tor? Seems perfectly practical for my purposes.
While tor is good speed may be an issue.
As with any VPN its a transfer of trust, do you trust nord?
I trust Nord as much as I trust any VPN that has independent audits of their no-log policy.
And yes Tor is slow, but I dont think that makes in impractical, you’re trading privacy for speed.
And intellectual property is no property!
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/o4GZUCwVRLs
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I’ll do you one better,
https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/piracy-is-completely-justified-louis:f
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The entitlement is real. Stick to right to repair.
You should stick to using Reddit, since you love corporations.
As I’m reading through comments posted by user you replied to, hes one of: a troll, a corporate bootlicker, or just so fucking dumb, my already smooth brain got even smoother just by reading their opinions. Anyway, I recommend blocking him
Why entitlement? He paid good money for a service and hardware and still got fucked sideways and got his data sold to shady assholes. Is it now bad to not want to be scammed and be spied on, while PAYING for something?
I used Netflix multiple years and it just got worse and worse in quality and convenience, while getting more expensive. Something that doesn’t happen when sailing the high seas. I don’t have to dox myself when pirating (unless you fucked it up yourself, ofc). I don’t have to justify why I try to watch something away from home. I’m not region restricted, because of licensing issues or some bullshit law some corrupt politician made up, while hoisting the black flag. And finally, I don’t need to pay multiple expensive subscriptions, because some companies want to take a piece of the cake, too.
You know what happened to pirating movies and series, when Netflix first started its streaming business and you could watch everyting on one platform for a reasonable price? Piracy drastically decreased. It only got a “problem” again, after the streaming services got greedy and tried their best to screw the users over with restrictions.
Is it entitlement to expect to get what was advertised from a service you pay for? If they advertise $x/month for 4k and you pay them $x/month and get 720p, that seems like a very legitimate complaint to me.
