Which seas do you avoid?

  • salarua@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    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

  • Mr. Satan@monyet.ccEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    So there is a thing I kind of pirate, but not entirely – e-books.

    But thing is, our public library page has e-books and some of them are available to be read online. Now I cannot officially download them, however opening a network tab on browser console shows me a request to download the whole .epub file. So what I do is copy that request as curl and just download it via terminal.

    Is it piracy, probably, is this resource publicly available for me to read, definetly yes.

    Other than that I don’t really pirate much else.

  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Pretty much anything that I can buy easily without going to second-hand or stupid subscriptions. For me, it’s really a service problem, not a cost problem.

  • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    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.

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    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.

  • dzaffaires@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Video games, because it’s easier to do it legally. If it was as easy for other media, I would do it that way.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Nothing nowadays.

    I’ll pirate indie games, see if it like it and if I do - I buy them to support the developer.

    Similar with ebooks, I pirate them, read and if I like it. I will buy the physical book to support the author.

  • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    I extremely rarely pirate games and software. It’s just far too easy an attack vector for malware. The games I want to play are usually worth buying regardless, and free software is good enough for my needs. It isn’t a flat out refusal, I’ve definitely pirated these things, but it’s in niche situations where I need to see something specific, and I always check run it under a vm