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.

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      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… 🤭

  • 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    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

    • 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      7 days ago

      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

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    27·
    9 days ago

    This kind of thinking is what the mpaa and others want pirating framed as. Very very little of what’s pirated would have been paid for at all had it not been available. I’ve paid to see sequels for movies that have pirated and have bought books based on series I’ve downloaded that I never would have bothered to explore if I had to buy them originally.

    • That Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      11·
      8 days ago

      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.

  • remon@ani.socialEnglish
    25·
    9 days ago

    I’d be fucked …

    Currently around 70TB … over 2k movies, 1.8k TV shows (63.000+ episodes) and around 66.000 tracks by over 900 artists …

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      8·
      9 days ago

      Nah fuck it. I yaRrr’ed the pirates of the caribbean movies, fuck the mouse.

      Participating in this community is practically admission already.

      There are millions of us in the US, tens of millions of us worldwide. Are they gonna sue/jail us all?

  • ExtremeDullard@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    17·
    9 days ago

    I owe my entire life to piracy.

    I learned all I know on pirated software, and all the jobs that I’ve ever held are entirely attributable to it.

    Did I shaft the software vendors I pirated the software of? Absolutely. But! I’m also very well paid and I pay a lot of taxes thanks to my ill-gotten skills. So overall, I contributed to society as a whole orders of magnitude more than I stole from the individual software vendors.

    Of course, I recognize that this sort of logic is self-serving and leaves the software vendors I shafted without any money. But… just sayin’. There’s more than one face to this coin.

    As for media - music, movies and such, I’ve almost never purchased any. I bought a few LPs as a kid before my parents bought me a cassette player (and more importantly, recorder). After that, I never ever paid a single dime for any media I’ve ever consumed. Never. And I still don’t.

    I make no apology for this: it’s theft pure and simple. The only weak justification I can offer is that if I tried to purchase music or movies, it would be inconvenient to procure, DRM’ed, force shit I don’t want to watch down my throat, like those stupid unskippable FBI warnings on DVDs, and the pirated versions of mp3s and movies are much more user-friendly and resistant to time and deprecation. But at the end of the day, I fully admit that I’m a shameless freeloader.

    The only thing I pay for religiously is books. No particular reason why I respect writers more than musicians or film directors… It’s just like that. I want writers to get paid.

    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
      English
      5·
      9 days ago

      I see no problem with learning to use some expensive software by pirating it only to then get a job using that software (paid with a corporate license). Before many companies had “education editions” of software, that was how you learned.

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      I think for books its easier to attribute credit to one person compared to like dozens of actors and extra crew to make a city scene in the movie look populated, or like multiple members of a band. Books are just one person responsible for all of it. If the author is good you support them. Where as, sometimes a movie is good, but then one of those producers/script-writers/actors turns out rotten with bad politics (like bigotry) then your support is kinda of goes towards their royalties and fame. With one person, its much easier to research their politics to support them, and simultaneouly easier to organize a boycott writers for their bigotry.

      • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Also 90% of the people who work on movies don’t usually get royalties. They’ve already been paid for their work, who cares if the production company CEO gets a few extta bucks?