What's up with people on the piracy subreddit always talking about how they pay for stuff. your on a piracy community and they talk about purchasing digital goods? I don't get it. New piracy gen ? : piracy


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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I pay for a service to not get letters with a bigger value than I pay.
Also I save money and for some of my friends as well.

[–] Jaeger86@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I like having physical and digital media, and usually digital media is locked to a site that and a lot of my blu rays to burn them would take more effort than I realized so I like to obtain both

[–] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

There are times when I just but the app/service to support the devs (mostly small devs). Eg for Apps I have bought: Nova Launcher (long back and don't use), PowerAmp, MiXplorer Silver & Pano Scrobbler.

Could I get them for free? Definitely yes. Did I ever used Pirated version of them? Yes, of course.

[+] TheObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com -12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Ye it's wild. They also say they only pirate X or Y or do it because of Z. Like are you a pirate or not bro? You're either in or not. I pirate everything I possibly can. That goes for small indie companies up to the AAA guys, small film companies to box office. ALL OF IT. I always got downvoted for saying it too on a PIRACY sub! Shits wild.

Edit: Even on lemmy my point gets proven 🤣

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That depends totally on the reason you pirate stuff. What are your motivations behind pirating? There are probably a ton of different reasons people do it. I often see people bragging about it so I guess fragile masculinity is a main factor in pirating as well. Or like another commenter said, it could be to experience freedom.

To me, it seems like a political act to pirate stuff from large corporations but pay money for indie media and small creators. Just like I would shoplift in large supermarket chains while I would never shoplift in a small family-run store.

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