• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well, since Pirates copy rather than take, surely they’re creating value everytime they make a copy of something (were you had one, now you have two), unless that something had no value to begin with.

    Be a a Pirate: It’s good for the Economy!

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You block ads because of privacy.

    I block ads to cause the greatest amount of financial damage, purely out of spite.

    We are not the same.

  • thantik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I pirate because I was taught to pirate from a young age. My dad brought home a copy of DOOM from his friend, my aunt rented VHS’s from Blockbuster and copied TF out of them and let friends borrow them. Every Windows OS I’ve installed we’ve reused CD keys. And now, I download movies/tv shows for my kids to watch so they aren’t inundated with ads. But…I buy the things that are worth it. I’ve bought my kids all the Five-Nights games because they enjoyed them. My steam library is FILLED with humble-bundles from Indy artists and games that were lovingly made by their creators like BG3, Enshrouded, Nightingale, etc. But I also have a Nintendo switch that’s cracked WIIIIDE open because fuck Nintendo. Also fuck Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Activision (RIP Blizzard), Apple, and I’m sure I’ll come up with more later. Oh yeah, and FUCK NESTLE.

  • notannpc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I just enjoy having 1 app to browse the content I want to watch instead of a dozen different apps that suck in their own special ways.

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      1 year ago

      Kinda. I’m terrified how everyone seems to be in favour of having significantly stricter copyright protections because of scary AI.