I think the total cost for me would’ve probably been like $5000 (USD) at least. Like at least 100 movies. 150 TV shows, 50 games.
Zero. I only download Linux ISOs.
Linux ISOs.
I mean, that’s is the primary use of torrents, right? Right? I mean, who would download a car. Surely nobody would do that… 🤭
After a very intensive calculations session, I come up with at least 7$.
$0. I would not have any it if I didn’t pirate it. I was never going to spend any money.
this is exactly why their numbers for ‘lost revenue’ is a load of shit… Most of us would be the same. If we couldn’t pirate, we just wouldn’t watch their shit.
nice try Interpol!
This was tricky, but I estimate about $3.50
That’s one lazy loch ness monsta.
Nice try, glowie
Nice try, glowie
I wouldn’t use that term, it has a… problematic history:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie
Etymology
From glow + -ie. Originated by Terry Davis, who stated in a 2017 video that “CIA [N-Slur] glow in the dark”, implying that they are conspicuous. The term “glowie” would become popular on the 4chan /pol/ board around 2019.
I don’t agree with the sentiment that a word used by one guy next to a slur they also used imparts a derogatory meaning to the word as well. If this were the case, we would have a problem with a lot more words.
If someone said “F-slurs shine like a rainbow”, that doesn’t make the words shine or rainbow derogatory.
Furthermore with the contextual usage of glowie considered - if it is derogatory, then its usage shows that its derogatory to members of the CIA rather than people of color.
However if people continue to cite glowie as a slur for people of color, then people might start to use it in that context, and then it becomes a slur for people of color.
Therefore I would recommend not citing the use of the word in this way because all it can do is eventually add a derogatory connotation that doesn’t currently exist outside of being next to a slur during one usage or the creation of it.
Zero because I don’t have to do anything.
Does a WoW subscription count? I’ve played on private servers for a looooong time, that alone would’ve been some 20+ months of sub.
It’s tricky for me to estimate because the majority of my piracy happened around 2004-14, so lots of stuff I don’t remember, plus some of the games I pirated back then I ended up buying later on at a discount (Jazz Jackrabbit, SupCom, UT2004, X3TC). I still don’t own a legal copy of Age of Empires 2, so you can add that one to my debt.
Oh, that reminds me, if I add the many, many, MANY emulated roms to that list, boy, that’ll be a lot of debt. Some 500 games times ~40 dollars average, that’s 20k.
There are also the many anime episodes that simply didn’t exist as available for purchase, so “at original price” I guess it’d be zero.
Pirscy has its negatives, anything ive spent money on ive been compelled to use, piracy ill build up a library of barely touched software, doing myself a disservice not learning/using them, but they feel less imporrtant if they can be gotten free, only really applies to the initial learning phase but most stuff I pirate I dont get past that phase
Ive spent hella time watching garbage I wouldve never bought but watched it because it was free, wont get that time back lol, many games ill never play because I pirated them and didnt even try them, but that just made them feel like they could be played whenever, and since the only cost was the time it took to downlaod/install I was never rushing to open them
There’s a lot of stuff that you can’t even buy now.
About -5000, where can I collect, FBI?
Collect at your local FBI office, of course.
Don’t worry its very safe, there are some very skilled agents right at the lobby to protect the the money… from the bad guys of course. All you have to do is just walk to the receptionist and ask for it. Looking forward to meeting you! 😉
Thanks! Let me pack my gun and some weed for the trip, I’ll be there in a jiffy.
Probably not that much. I ended up buying most of the games I pirated anyway. For me, it was because of sheer poverty.
These days, I don’t care enough about games to bother anymore.
Or, I own the media already, and just want an easy-ready version that I can video edit without having to fuss over decoders and crap.
Jfc, I can’t even calculate.
Music, if we say 10 bucks a CD, at least 10k. Probably closer to 20k, and maybe more because I haven’t actually counted in years because I didn’t see the point in trying to keep up. However, I just went and looked at the folder on my nas and it has 1k+ albums on it, and that’s way less than is on my main drive on my media PC. So even the 20k estimate is a lot lower than what’s actually there. Likely closer to the $50k mark if my memory is right. I tend to grab whole albums rather than individual tracks only, and I’m prone to grabbing an entire discography when I discover a new band. My music collection is around 2tb total, I know that without looking.
Movies, even at the same price, it would be around the 8k mark somewhere, though they aren’t all in one place, so I cant be certain. There’s a little over 1k files on the nas, but that’s only the ones that everyone wanted available on there.
Books, I’m fucked. Call it 5 bucks for a cheap paperback, and I’m close to 10k, if not over. Hard to be sure because I do have duplicates in multiple formats. I’ve whittled down to only “borrowing” epub files and converting on my own if someone borrows an ebook from me and wants a different format, but I’ve never gone through and deleted mobis and whatnot. But it’s around 3k files on my boox reader, plus more on my nas drive that I really only keep because I like having access to some reference materials but don’t use them often enough to justify keeping them on devices. So 15k there, at that price.
I just checked because I was curious. Almost 18k files of ebooks. That, however, does include classics that I only read occasionally, copies in multiple formats, stuff that isn’t for me (kid, wife, etc), and probably some stuff that I read once and never will again, but didn’t delete. So, over 50,000 bucks at 5 bucks each.
Comics, that’s easier because a scanned version doesn’t really have a monetary value at all, and most of my collection is of OOP stuff. So, depending on how you look at what a price should be, it’s $0, maybe 600 bucks at $1 each, or you’d have to track cover prices on all of it, and I ain’t doing that lol.
Tbh, I can’t think of the last time I pirated a game. I just don’t game that much on my desktop any more, and I know I haven’t in the 10 odd years I’ve had that specific hard drive.
If I tried to factor in stuff that was higher priced at some point (and CDs used to be pretty expensive), numbers would go up.
Shit. Even if I wiped out the stuff I have physical copies of, it would still be in the 100k range I think.
I’ve pirated books that are so rare their used copies cost hundreds of euros. Also there are the English academic publications, which have insane prices even by default, and boy do I love hoarding them. In general, I’ve pirated so much I have no idea how I’d even go about estimating the theoretical total cost.
OTOH I’ve also recently been thinking about how much money I have spent on legally obtaining media, going to concerts and film screenings and plays and exhibitions and everything else… Should be solidly in the four-digit area.
By this point I would have to have Luigi’d about three CEOs to be able to pay all the stuff via collecting the contracts.
