Which seas do you avoid?
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i try to pay indie devs whenever i can
Food for thought. If you have decided you were never going to buy the game, what’s the harm in pirating it
Honesty as an aspiring indie dev myself, I wouldn’t mind you pirate my game BUT I just buy cheap indie games on sale without not being sure if I’m going to play them any time soon. Best case scenario I found new favorite game, worst case scenario, I just payed 8€ (-the expenses from the store) to some developer chasing their dream.
My wallet can take it and I like to support indie scene.
If you were never going to buy it, why pirate it?
Because if you’re selfish enough you can enjoy the game at no cost to you guilt free.
I’m just pointing out the facts here.
To check it out and realize I don’t like it after like 15 minutes and then not have to deal with a refund.
Gimme a demo at least.
sometimes i decide its worth my money after i play it
open source
Anything that is an executable on PC (software / games) due to security risk. Game ROMs for emulators are fine.
Indie games. Tremendous respect for indie devs.
Same with some exeptions (when i cant afford it or when its very complicated to buy or if i had it and (insert game store here) removed it from my library)
Song and Books
I mostly pirate games that don’t have free trials. I’ll play them a bit and if I like em I’ll just buy them legit and often buy them for friends so we can play together. I’ve bought like 3 copies of terraria and 2 of minecraft way back in the day in addition to a bunch of other smaller names. I also pirate AAA games because fuck em, they don’t need my money.
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.
Sad news about band camp from last year though.
I’m sadly aware…which is another reason why I try go straight to the band/artist first.
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.
I only pirate apps with no alternatives and very aggressive monetization like 100€/year subscriptions…
I kinda pirated Spotify (xmanager). I believe Tidal is one I would actually subscribe too if I had the income.
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.
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.
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
We’ve been buying stuff on bandcamp friday, it is pretty neat
- 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 ?
Apple will make you pay for anything apparently
Nothing.
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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.
* cries in Adobe *
Or you have to run a shady crack or keygen to get it to work, and I don’t trust those.
But …their catchy 8bit music!
I can hear KMSpico in my head already…
monkrus FTW
FOSS for the win 😁
Usually music made by artists from my country, if they have a website where I can pay for their music directly to them I do it that way.
🙌🏻 I buy CDs and newer unseal them, but pirate the songs because it’s more convenient.
Sometimes I rip CDs to replace music I’ve already pirated just for the feeling of having music I ripped myself.
Makes no sense, I know, but music is just for the feeling after all.I prefer high res over CD quality 😇 but I think I can relate.
I mean, I can put up with far worse quality.
In some cases I have to. For example I have some classical songs ripped from YouTube that sound absolutely horrible, but I am kinda accustomed to those specific performances, and it’s not always possible to find a better recording from one specific performance. And the other ones just sound… off. Sometimes this is also the case with remasters.
The worst one I have is a song from Beatles I am keeping both because it’s one of the first files I downloaded when I was 8 and however weird it sounds, I got used to the compression artifacts. It’s 32kbps HE-AAC at 22.05kHz sample rate. I don’t even know its name. The name and metadata is in Chinese.
